Engineers Without Borders
Oregon State University
Kenya Meeting Minutes 9-1-09
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EWB-Kenya Meeting Notes
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Attending: Aparna, Mikkel, Kendra, Adam, Daniel, Josh
Mission Statement: Our vision is a world in which all communities have the capacity to meet their basic human needs.
- In the future rotating who says this
Announcements/updates:
- Trip postponed - what actually happened?
o Postponed to December
- Share Pictures of the community
- Going back to group breakout structure, let me know if you’d like to lead them
- Any other updates
Assignments/personal updates:
- Everyone
o Bring contact information for banquet invitees
- Daniel
o Keen shoes
§ They do community outreach projects
· Have done a project in Africa
§ Will see if they want to work with us
- Kendra
o Rotary
§ Have gotten contact information for people that actually need to get to, will now start contacting them
- Aparna
o Add Justin to facebook editors
§ Not done will do
o Send Mikkel graphic design contact
§ Not done will do
o Send Bike Ride thank yous
§ Not done will do
- Courtney
o Send Mikkel information for Pure water group
§ Done
o Add contact to engineering company in Beaverton on google docs
o Add connection with PSU and engineering platform to google doc
o Get more info on Jimba drummer that contacted you about craigslist add
§ Will be going to see her and others
- Mikkel
o Send dish details to Brad and Katie
§ Done
o Announcements
§ Get people to come to general meetings
o Barometer advertisement includes;
§ Mission statement
§ Time, date, all majors needed
- Kate
o Send Aparna latest vector art to share with Board
- Luke
o Water challenge
§ Find out:
· Who are we going to be focusing on
· Which one of their publications to work with
- Marshall
o Water challenge
§ Find out:
· Who are we going to be focusing on
· Which one of their publications to work with
- Justin
o Send out bike ride thank you’s
o Send out Western Union grant
§ Bad news sent letter of inquiry
· Immediate response
o A form you need to filled out online not letter
o So missed it
o Probably not our best fit, focus on microfinance projects
o Talk to Michelle about not doing water walk
o Send Aparna donor contacts
- Adam
o Send Aparna Donor Contacts
o Work on Logo for Banquet
- Need to deposit money from bike ride
Community Call (Everyone)
- Explain dynamics with Wilson
o Charle’s son lives in Nairobi
§ Really interested in helping
§ Has email and cell phone works well,
§ We understand each other a lot better
§ First told him not doing trip
§ Then told community
· Very disappointed
· Want to show that we still care
o Engage them in some activity until we get there
§ NGO’s have to do these
· Get in touch with NGO’s and see what they do
o Adam send Aparna NGO contact and info once he has finished collected
o Explain our circumstance and how we can minimize loss of credibility
§ Activities
· Marking what days rain, and for how long
· How far away people have come for water
· Figure out how much water they are using
· Taking temperature
o Would send thermometer
· Lifestraw
o 10 inch tall straw put into water, when brought up to top of straw safe to drink
· Instances of health problems
o May think health problems are normal
· Sending something to us to help fundraise money
o Crafts
§ Would be best bet, but raw materials may be hard to get
§ Get money to Charles’s son to give to community for supplies
§ Would send what they needed
§ Who would be gathering information
§ Will be short on supplies
§ Will come back to it next week
Banquet (Group Breakout #1)
- Pushed for next time
- Location
- Save the Dates
o Waiting on logo
- Logo
o Adam’s logo finally seen!
§ Not ready yet
- Invitee list
- Decorations
Water Challenge (Group Breakout #2)
- Kendra info
o Date’s
§ Working on figuring out a good day
§ Work with dad’s weekend
§ Beginning of school
· 2nd week
· Nick Mose’s telling all freshman classes
o Partner/funding request
§ Alright to use their info to use as a fundraiser for ourselves
§ Have a few in country people that they work with
§ Can we edit material that they have online
o Have implementation packets
o Coordination
§ Coordinate with a larger event, beginning or starting of project
§ Having news out there
§ Visiting classes at beginning of 2 weeks, and end of 2 weeks
§ They can send out bracelets for us
§ Make it as easy as possible
§ Easier with more people involved so people don’t forget
o Show a documentary at the end
§ Could be cheap
§ Luke and Marshall will look into what documentary to show
- Who will we work with
- Publicity plan of action
- Need estimates for stickers and bracelets
- Recruitment
- Goal Setting—how many participants, how much money, etc.
Regional conference
- We should all go!
- Announce at first meeting
- Figure out whose going
- Request money for both international conference and regional conference
o International conference
§ Denver, Colorado
§ Beginning of spring break
Grants (Group Breakout #3)
- Talked to EWB-USA, said that we could get started and talk in-depth about problems in the community and explain details about potential solutions
o EWB gets a bunch of money
o Problems: Water quality/quantity, talk to Wilson to get more details
o Solutions: Rain harvesting, Gravity Fed, Wells – can get technical specs on first two from El Salvador
- Which should we focus on? Which are we most applicable to?
o EWB-USA Fall Grants –512 (One page Summary) Form is application
§ Make it more compelling
· Some one take that on until next week
o Adam
o Want multiple people to look at this
o Coca Cola Foundation
§ Talked to Kelly at nationals
· Grants take a while to go through
· Most important: talking about what the problem is and making that compelling, talking about details what we would implement of what we found
o Rain catchment systems
o Gravity systems
o Money that is going somewhere good
· Coca cola focusing on water
o Unilever (Colgate)
§ Wilson works there
· Have Wilson check into
§ Other opportunities
- New Jersey’s professionals worked in Kenya near Lela
o Worked with Jerry
o 8 different projects in area for EWB
§ Talk to them
Assignments:
- Everyone
o Deposit money from bike ride
o Think about activity that the community can do
o Figure out if you want to go to regional conference
§ You should! It’s weekend of October 9th
- Daniel
o Look into Keen shoes, see if they have any grant opportunities for us
- Kendra
o Continue to work with contacting rotary
o Figure out if we can edit water challenge’s material
- Luke
o Look into what documentary for water challenge we should show
- Marshall
o Look into what documentary for water challenge we should show
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- Aparna
o Add Justin to facebook editors
o Send Mikkel graphic design contact
o Send bike ride thank you’s
o Talk to Wilson about community engagement activities, and Unilever funding
- Courtney
- Mikkel
o Send out announcements to newsletters
o Email guy from Kelley about office space
- Kate
o Send Aparna latest vector art to share with Board
- Justin
o Send Aparna donor contacts
o Talk to Michelle about not doing water walk
- Adam
o Finish logo
o Send Aparna donor contacts
o Work on 512
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