Construction Preparation Kick off Meeting

Hello everyone!

I am excited to announce our kick off meeting for the construction preparation phase of our project. It will take place at 7:00pm on Tuesday November 3rd at the Fremont Neighborhood Service Center (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl ) The design is basically planned out, but there are many things that need to be done to make this project a success.

We will have a few separate groups involved in this project process. You may decide to be in one of the groups or help out with 2 or 3, but wherever you would like to help, we would be happy to have it. Here are the groups and the tasks to be accomplished by each.

Irrigation Construction group (led by Erin Jenkins and Lolly Kunkler)
-build a list of materials for construction
-discuss safety measures, personal protective equipment, and best practices
-work with the education team to develop manuals for this portion of the project
-make a list of project team roles for the community members

Rain Water Catchment Construction Group (Led by Kari Vigerstol with help from Ashley Giesa)
-build a list of materials for construction
-discuss safety measures, personal protective equipment, and best practices
-work with the education team to develop manuals for this portion of the project
-make a list of project team roles for the community members

Health and Education Team (headed by Juan Lara)
-determine the health and education materials most needed by the community
-help the project teams to create manuals
-help with translations of materials
-produce materials to be used to teach the community about their new systems and how they can improve their lives with them.

Bridge Assessment Group (headed by Paul Moore) (this group will likely not be meeting as much, but there may be some help needed here).
-gathering materials needed for assessment

A few of the team members and I have been working very hard on the pre-implementation report for this project and are coming to a close with that. This report will be available on the EWB-PSPP website under the Nicaragua group within the next few days. Please take a moment to log on to EWB-PSPP, download the file and read through it before the meeting on Tuesday. I will also try to post all other pertinent information to the website so that you can all get up to speed on the project.

Please email me if you have any questions and I hope to see you all on Tuesday!

Ashley