go(D) with the flow: Monday

The real work started today. We formed two groups, the water group (David, Dave, Harlon and Franklin) and the teaching group (Leigh, Liz, Jane and Melvin). Jane was in her "Im in charge" ,leader, shlepper,go get, accountant group!

The water group started at 10 a.m. with a brief explanation to the trainee operators (Felix, Luis, Roberto and Pastor Posada) of what was to be achieved. Dave and Franklin then provided instruction on the assembly of the water board inside the building (photo) while Harlon, David and another interpreter, Orlando, lifted a 1,100 liter water tank onto the roof (photo). This provides gravity feed to the water board inside. A barrel filter (photo) will also reside on the roof, through which water will pass, exiting as clarified water. There is another 1,100 liter tank outside the building built up off the ground on blocks, just higher than the water pump. During the day the pastor had a work crew dig up the road to insert a feed pipe into the main water pipe.

David said it was an amazing thing! Any missing parts just appeared out of the woodwork.

The teaching group started their day by traveling to the Port town of San Lorenzo we were in search of a photocopier, extra certificates for our trainees and a hardware store for plumbing parts, bags of ice. What had such fun shopping at the local market.
We arrived at Puerto Grande around midday in time to make the team sandwiches and enjoy the local black sugary coffee, boiled not stirred! As our team starts training on Tuesday so we had a tour of the town (lots of rocky streets) and we noted that most homes there were fish drying in the sun on the fence in each garden. The tour also afforded glimpses of the Pacific Ocean with fishermen (primer livelihood) working in the bay (photo).

Jane conducted a water sample for testing, the only water supply was from the main pipe in the street.

There are also pictures of the our team at Church on Sunday, Puerto Grande.