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April 2008 - Project Management Course |
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Tuesday, April 22, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
This time I only brought hand luggage walked right out of the airport and was picked up by the driver off the APF. After stopping at several locations and loading up the truck with gas bottles, a grill and many boxes, we left for Fondwa. All of the equipment was for a congress starting on April 23, which Fr. Joseph was organizing in Fondwa. This was a congress of political leaders from all over he country, invited to discuss the establishment of a new ministry of the Haitian government, dealing exclusively with peasant affairs. Surprisingly, in a country that is still largely rural, this did not yet exist.
The trip and the stay at Fondwa were uneventful this time (which sometimes is a good thing). On Sunday I downloaded a Project Management software program on the laptops in the computer lab and a dozen of us shared 5 computers while I explained how to use the program. On Monday we had two long sessions, diving deep into project management. I decided to initiate a real project to accompany the dry material. It is the “Water Filter Project” that picks up where the “Makaya Water Project” had left off. The Makaya project is to bring the water from the spring in the valley up to the APF center located in Tombe Gateau on the main road from Leogane to Jacmel. Tombe Gateau is somewhat of a downtown of the community of Fondwa. The scope of the Water Filter project is to install a filter and a holding tank for the filtered water. The idea for this project originated with the team of students that wrote the business plan for the Auto Parts Store across the street from the APF center. We decided then that maybe we could utilize the two huge empty tanks located there to store potable water.
Tuesday morning I drove with Max back to Potoprens and he dropped me off at the airport after we had lunch at a friend’s house.
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