It's Been a Very Good Day

You have to understand how isolated this village in Camp Perrin is. To get here, we had to leave our own transportation at the bottom of the mountain in Camp Perrin. Then Chavannes, the Director of the MP3K project, drove us up the mountain to the village in his "turbo" Toyota pickup truck. Not just any vehicle can make the drive up that road and apparently our big Kia is not one of them. "Blanques" do not come here on vacation or for much of any other reason. Most of the locals have no transportation but their feet other than the occasional motorcycle or donkey.

The result is that we have been the most exciting entertainment in the village all week. We have had lots of people hanging around just watching to see what in the heck we are doing.

The installation has been moving ahead even though the finishing work on the water system room is not completed and the rest of the building is in an even more rudimentary state.

What we have done is finish the installation in two days, shocked the system, made pure water as well as train 19 people in public health and hygiene and how the water purification system works. The four operators' training will be completed by tomorrow noon. Darenda, Akeisha, Chavannes, and Franthz completed the covenant agrement. Potential new sites have been scouted. Tomorrow afternoon we celebrate!

Operator Training



Our class puzzles out the water purification system

Brian loads up fingerpaint for handprints on the celebration banner

 

Making the banner

Negotiationg the contract