Engineers Without Borders

Kenya Meeting 6/04/09

June 4, 2009 at 11:26 pm | In Meeting Minutes | No Comments

EWB Kenya Meeting

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Application Status

· 6-8 turned in

· No professionals yet

-2 professionals in Vancouver were interested

-2 professionals from HP?

-Send word out about needing professionals

· New deadline = Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Travel Selection done by next Friday

Board meeting last night

· Purchase tickets soon as possible

o But TAC approval and professional

· Push off trip to September

Need before travel

· GPS work shop

o Talk to forestry department

· First Aid and CPR training (day at Dixon with group for price)

· Don’t need wilderness training (but maybe want)

· What needs to be Geologically assessed (with Professional)

o Anyone on campus that can give us direction

§ Geoscience or Civil (Sustainability engineering course more like philosophy class not what we were looking at)

§ Geotechnical faculty?

§ Talk to Evan see who he directs us too

§ El Salvador project professor, don’t really have anyone that could help us out from El Salvador

o Maybe every meeting now

o Gordon (professional), willing to help with this

§ Meeting in Portland, every other weekend

· Assessment (with Professional)– Stove Guy (met at international conference at West coast at some point late May early June)

o Most people think we know solution before we get there, limits our choices

§ Talk to community and see what resources are out there, more potential than what we think

§ Phone calls change picture of what we are imagining

· Learning Swahili

o Daniel willing to give lessons

§ Book simplified Swahili (main learning book)

§ Learn basic thing to get basic connection with community

· IRB

o Wrapping up

· TAC

o Due next Saturday

· Packing/Things to bring

· Student from Kenyatta University

· Travel/Clinic appointment/Shots/Vaccinations

· Make list of what we want out of trip, background research so people have while travel

Calendar meetings tentative schedule (probably Saturday afternoon)

· June 20nd Assessment with Stove guy, discussion of what we will be looking for

· June 27th (with professionals in Portland) Meet and greet with professionals

· July 4th

· July 11th

· July 18th

· July 25th (with professionals in Portland)

· August 1rd

· August 8th

· August 15th

· August 22th

· August 29st (with professionals in Portland)

Every meeting

- Geotechnical stuff

- Swahaili

TAC

· Next Friday finish it, nothing until then

IRB

· Written

· Need to distribute

· Submitted 3-4 weeks before trip

· How we are going to assess things

o Have group know what survey and administering

o Finalize IRB document and have draft, have something to reference

· Respiratory health, and pregnancy

Fundraising

· Receipt and official document?

· Pushing personal network

o Aparna got $500 bucks from one person! Not even close contact!

o Follow up letter with one page summary with people we have talked to about the Kenya project already

§ Add more to assessment section, send to Aparnas sister and then return it too us

§ Thank you letters

· Ticket prices are going to go up