21st Mtg of the SMA Midday Rotary Water Project Committee

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21st Mtg of the SMA Midday Rotary Water Project Committee

Where: Los Torres Kindergarten.
When: 23rd February 2009 10.30am – 12.30pm
Who: Holly Yasui & Benigno (Cedesa), David Gillis (Videographer for CEDESA), Laura (Rotary) & 6 men (no-one from group 3)

Purpose: Today is the first day of the demonstration of the building of a 12,000 litre cistern by CEDESA (Funded by SMCF Grant). This will enable the community to build their own cisterns when the large Rotary Project is initiated.

The community had previously divided into 4 groups of 11 with a commitment that at least 2 people from each group should attend each of the 4 day sessions, to learn the entire process of building a cistern & the roof & piping system that supports the collection & storage of rainwater.

Summary of the day
There was an unexpected community meeting in Cruz del Palmar which all of the women were called to attend, hence there were only men at the beginning of the day.

The women came to help after the meeting, & finished the task they had been set – ie to “weave” the wire chicken mesh together with the more sturdy wire mesh enclosed - ½ day earlier than planned.

Leova’s husband came to represent her group.

Step 1 was to lay out the chicken wire, 2 strips side by side.
Step 2 weave the chicken wire together along one side, using wire hook “gancho”s
Step 3 lay maya (sturdy wire mesh) on top of the chicken wire.
Step 4 fold another layer of chicken wire on top of the wire mesh, & then fold the remaining section of the chicken wire over, completely enclosing the wire mesh.
Step 5 weave or crochet the chicken wire from each side together using the gancho’s. (nb this is the time consuming bit, each little diamond of wire has to be en-meshed together & is ideally suited to women’s fine motor skills!!!)

We left before the “weaving” was finished.

See photo album.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lauramex/LosTorresPilotProjectDay1?feat=directlink