Engineers Without Borders

Project Meeting 5/19/08

May 29, 2008 at 12:26 pm | In Meeting Minutes |

Permission for summer trip:

·         We have official TAC approval for the El Naranjito project in June.

·         Aaron, the peace corp. volunteer talked to Tom Hawk (one of the land owners) and hopefully we will have signed permission faxed to us by Wednesday.

Possible donations/partnerships:

·         There is a possibility of getting the automatic float valves donated for the tanks.

·         We will receive a $1500-2000 donation from Isa Mundo.  This would cover the cost of tanks for the Las Mercedes system.

·         Evan and Malia met with the local rotary leader, who was interested in working with us.  He will help us track down rotary contacts in El Salvador.  They might be able to help us in future projects after the June trip.  However, the El Salvador rotary is limited to five country projects at any given time. 

o   We were asked to speak to a rotary meeting in Florence.  Malia and one other will go on June 17^th.

December trip possibilities:

·         Two or three more gravity systems?  We need to get the legal process taken care of, plus labor is limited during the coffee harvest.

·         Work on groundwater entering existing systems

·         Possibility of more gravity fed systems? We would have to start setting up for it on this trip.

Other:

·         We are putting in orders for EWB T shirts for travelers who don’t have them.