Who wants to help??!!

Hello all,

I have been getting a lot of requests for information from everyone that was unable to make it to the meeting last Tuesday. I know you all are anxious to get started on this new information that we have gathered from our trip, so I thought I would give you all an opportunity to get started. If you are interested in any of the following projects and helping to research possible materials and costs associated with the implementation of them, please LEAVE A COMMENT IN THIS POST. That way, I can keep all of these requests in the same area.

So the projects we need to research, besides the irrigation and pumping project, are:
1. Cable stay/suspension pedestrian bridges
2. Rainwater catchments for houses, rainwater storage as an add to the irrigation project, and other rainwater conservation efforts
3. Water filtering for potable water - either at the source where there is a springbox and storage container, or at each individual casa
4. Organic farming techniques, terracing, other efficient farming practices including water efficiency, storage of crops, etc.
5. Coffee processing stations including depulping and sweetwater processing.

These are just ideas that we have gotten from Agros and the community of what might be some appropriate projects for El Eden. If you are interested in researching one of these projects, please let me know in the comments, and I will make sure that we get you what information we have on the subject.

Also, I need to know which date works best for people to come to the next meeting. The two that I have chosen are Thursday June 18th or Wednesday June 24th. I plan to have the post assessment report up on the EWB-PSPP website in the next week or so. I will send out an email when I post it so that you can all download it and read it before the next meeting. It is very important that you read the report before the meeting so that we don't spend too much time re-explaining the trip. Juan is also working on translating the health assessment and when he is finished, I will also be posting that information on the website.

At this next meeting, we will be discussing the results of the health assessment and what they mean for our project, as well as assigning new tasks, regrouping on the irrigation project, and talking about fundraising. Please come prepared!

So again, please COMMENT HERE ON THE BLOG if you have a preference in meeting date, and if you are interested in helping out with some of the research on the other project possibilities.

Thanks so much and looking forward to meeting with you all again in June!

Thanks,

Ashley