This here water project has been the cause of many frustrations, panic-stricken nights and at times sadness at the slow progress we’ve made over the last few months. While there were many contributing factors, one in particular was our concern that the work we’d been doing to set up the organization was not going to realistically continue given that we were only really working with one other person here.
Before Christmas this changed when serious disagreements with our one employee led to him no longer continuing with the organization. We spent some of our time in Samaipata developing a new project plan for the next few weeks and interview questions to hire a couple people in the community. All the prep work was worth it because this past week we successfully hired two people to fill the roles of a Filter Technician and a Community Steward.
So far they haven’t let us down. We’ve been so impressed by their excitement for the project and truly enjoy hearing the suggestions they offer us in attacking some of the project’s major problems. There is also some sign that at least one of them will want to continue with the organization in the future and they both seem open to training any new staff that the organization may need to hire.
While there are certainly still many obstacles ahead, we feel like we’re more on track now than we’ve ever been.
1 comment:
Belated New Year Janaki and Trevor:
Hope you are both well. Hola, Had wondering what was happenin,little sis kept me in the loop and Mum also when I bumped into her. Glad to see you've got a new tech, and keep your fingers crossed community steward. I guess the learning curve and tolerance/frustation meter has come down a tad. Anyway, just want you two to know that yep-the old teach is checking your blog out regularly. Another one of my former students has a blog on blogger her name is Melissa and she is in Khartoum but will likely head to Uganda down the road to build a new school and take over as administrator.
Glyn
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