5th Mtg of the SMA Midday Rotary Cruz del Palmar Water Project

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5th Mtg of the SMA Midday Rotary Cruz del Palmar Water Project


Where: Cruz del Palmar Community (40 mins from SMA)
When: Wed April 14 11.40-2pm
Who: Chela, Holly (Cedesa), Laura (Rotary), 23 incl 2 men.


Purpose: Review of Pilot project & planning of next phase of the project.

We arrived late, I was held up for 1.5hrs changing US$ chqs in preparation for today´s visit. There were suppliers that needed to be paid.

Proposals for Co-ordinator & records taker were called for.
AnaLaura – ws voted Co-ordinator & writer! (someone helped her)

The roll was called, 19 from the list were present today.

Review of the work on Pilot Project
“some came for 1 day, watched & left”
“some didn´t come at all¨¨
“29 families were represented at the training – 20 of those are here today”

Chela asked how people felt about the training, there was general happy consensus, some people left because the thought it was too hard.

I noted on the first & last days a much better than average involvement. Everyone there appeared to be hands on (maybe just when I was there, but at other pilots there were often people just sitting watching)…

There are now 23 people on the list for the first phase, we have only cisterns for 20…

Interlude
Holly & I left the discussion at this point, Guillermo Alvarado (one of the LT technical team) had come especially to talk with us. He had a number of questions about the organisational side of the projects.He had gone house by house, checking the measurements & had a list of the variable materials required for Los Torres phase III (by family)…

We discussed possible procedure re the delivery of the variables & other materials orders. Benigno from Cedesa had taken charge of this process during Phase II at Los Torres.

We have now changed suppliers (to a local hardware supplier) & the LT tech team is now responsible.

We agreed to ask the supplier to deliver the standard materials (ie cement, wire etc) to each house, as per a list provided.

We also agreed to have the variables order (ie all the pvc piping, elbows, tee joints etc) delivered to 1 house at each project, & for each family to come & collect their items as per the list.





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We debated this a little, as the other option was to have the supplier send the variables for each family with each standard materials delivery. This would likely slow down deliveries though, & may not be possible, since the lengths of pvc tube would require cutting…

I also explained to Guillermo that we have in the budget 2 days payment for the checking of the measurements & placing of the order to the supplier…ie each technician will be paid 2 days for this for each project.

Return to the meeting
We had missed the majority of the meeting, but when we returned there was discussion about who would receive the first 20 cisterns.

One woman volunteered to come off the list since she said people in the upper area have more problems with water & she will wait for the next phase.

Others argued with her, that she should stay since she has a large extended family & there are others with just 1 or 2 in theirs.

I explained that the future for the next phases looked good, that there was interest from Intl. clubs to continue to support these projects, & we are attempting to engage the Municipality in this project, as well, there is the possibility of funding from the NZ & Canadian Embassies in Mexico City…(each has a discretionary community development fund for which we may apply).

Chela – if you work hard each family could have a cistern, we have to work little by little to find the solution.

It was mentioned that 2 people from Cruz del Palmar attended the solar distiller construction workshop at Cedesa the previous weekend.

There were proposals about how to solve the issue of too many people & too few cisterns.

Suggestions included –
• it should depend on the number of people in the family
• families living near by could share in the meantime
• Irene went to training but not at meeting, she has 2 daughters here, maybe she can wait until next phase, or share.

What´s needed for the next step
1. Decide where to place your cistern (close to incline of roof)
2. Measure the qty of pipes & elbows etc you need for your cistern
3. write a note of this, give to Rafael Cruz to check
4. Rafa will check measurements at each house
5. Rafa will compile a list by house & in total for the variable materials order
6. Rafa will get that list to Laura to place with the supplier
7. Supplier will deliver those materials to one place, & each family will come to collect what they need (re their list). The house of Diana Gonzalez.
8. There were a couple of volunteers who will help with the distribution of the variable materials process.


When can the materials arrive?
If steps 1-5 can be done before 21/4 then the list can be given to Laura at the Montecillo de Nieto assembly on that day.
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Delivery instructions
Deliver to 1st 4 people of each group. Ie materials for 12 cisterns for first delivery to CdP.


One change to the groups
From Group 3 take out Herminia & put in Victor.

Herminia will wait until Phase II, since they are currently in the middle of Casa Diferente (a govt. program that provides materials for the family to construct their own house!).

3 people volunteered to go into the next phase, so the list was down to 20 as required.

Next Assembly - 12.5.2010 at 11am




Photos can be seen (including the one of the blue hooded head, popping out of the cistern) on this link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lauramex/CruzDelPalmarWaterProject?feat=directlink