Engineers Without Borders

Kenya Project Meeting Minutes 6-23

June 25, 2009 at 10:02 am | In Meeting Minutes | Comments Off

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Attended:

Daniel, Courtney, Aparna, Adam, Justin, Mikkel, Birdie

* Send out info sheet for EWB Kenya donations (Aparna)
* Set up GPS/GIS training
o Dr. Boston, Mike Wein: will do training and check out GPS emailed but not responded yet
* Banquet:
o Courtney
+ PSU ballroom
# externally $1000, $175 per hour, $100 set up
# internal $600 or possibly free
+ Not valentine weekend but following weekend and weekend before are open
+ Who we are going to have coming?
# Going to companies, families, friends, personal networks
# Mercy Corp to see if help with advertising
+ Do people pay for seats, or putting on show and accepting donations
# Answer: cover charge for entrance and then donations
* Cell phone for Kenya-Adam talked to Kevin
o $30
o Preferred network: safari com, can change network on a whim
* First aid
o Wilderness training
+ Missed, offered once in a while, last one June 6th
+ $300
+ Maybe able to get group training special for us
o First aid, CPR
+ $30 per piece per person
+ First aid July 14th Tuesday
+ CPR July 15th Wednesday
+ Will arrange special class for 5 or more, Justin will pursue
+ Travelers and alternatives attend
+ El Salvador Malia: “Where there is no doctor” book to help medical with having nothing, send her and email to find the book and get it (Adam)
+ 4 hours long, have to be a weekend, first weekend of August
* Da Vinci days
o Send Aparna an email if you can help
* Printing, free with Aparna for EWB
o Tell if you have anything to print for EWB
o Printing one page summaries for members
* Geotechnical research
o Sign up for geotechnical research (Adam and Justin)
+ Email Evan about this
* Grant applications
o Courtney
+ Blue planet run
# Have to be recommended by a group member
* Looking for long term project
* Emailed and responded with generic
* Have to become member
o Need to be in good with someone in the group already
# Depending on who our donor is, can put that money towards that
# Will help you get started
+ Child health foundation
# Have to prove children are sick
# Have funded making children’s lives better
* Beehives, sunflower oil
# Application process?
# Maybe better to wait until have health statistics
# Deadline: April 30th
* letter for intent
* September, proposal
+ Maybe companies that are doing bad stuff may want to sponsor us
# Wal mart (Birdie)
# Shell/Chevron (Birdie)
# Pepsi
o Adam
+ Mercy project
# Seemed like only Lair Kenya
* But also has list of sponsoring groups, maybe us in the future?
# Not for us
+ Life stream foundation
# Intellectual problems in underdeveloped areas
* Not for us
+ Also going to look into Coca-cola for next meeting (Adam)
o Justin
+ Next one western union foundation; online letter of inquiry
o Mikkel
+ Lift up Africa
# Advisor has to recommend us
* Dr. Boston, or Dr. Harding
* Write up rough draft, and then they will edit and send
+ Oswald foundation
# Need letter of intent
o Aparna
+ Coca-cola foundation
# Lot of money, make image good with clean water
# Focused on clean water
# Not any specifics on us
o Daniel
+ The gates foundation
# Tobacco control
* Friends of Kenya
o Past peace corps members in Kenya
o May be able to get small contributions from them
* Will need to make letter of inquiry, and intent (Mikkel)
o 1 page summary of project on website!
* Meetings
o Meeting without being here (Remote attendance
+ Oovoo
# Try video conference with all of us together
# Only have 6 people in a conference call
* Mentors meet
* Then people in Corvallis (1 computer)
* Kendra
+ Skype?
o Saturday meeting
+ Carpool
+ Hour – hour and half
+ Location?
# Shari’s on Garden Home open at 10 am
* Need to call and ask about reserving room (Courtney)
* Donations send Aparna contact information, and how much you have contacted them
* Saturday: Objectives of the trip, 4 people enough (so everyone will be there so we can talk about this)
* Justin working on getting donations up online for EWB
* Moving meeting time?
o Video conference on Saturday then will figure out future time
* Swahili training?
o After Tuesday meeting
+ Figure out on Saturday, let Daniel know