Trip itinerary and such

Here's some info that Scott sent in an email to Actionnel (pastor of the church in Bayonnais, and community leader) It should include all the info. As usual, we have several different project going on and associated goals for the trip:
1) Bridge Repairs and Maintenance
2) Teach surveying class
3) Gather data for Hydroelectric Power
4) Discuss Roof Systems/Structural Stability of classrooms, granary, clinic and other new buildings.
5) Clinic Surveys and Discussions
We will be arriving in 2 different groups from 3 different places.  The transportation schedule is this:
1st group arrives:
8:50 am on Monday 5 January, 2009.
3 EWB members (2m/1f)  (UW members Scott Hamel, Kyle Ankenbauer, and Maria Selk)
 
2nd group arrives:\
12:20pm on Saturday 10 January, 2009
5 EWB members (3m.2f) (UW members Eyleen Chou, Tyler Lark)
 
1st group leaves:
5:20pm on Wednesday Jan 13, 2009
4 leaving (2m/2f) (UW members Scott and Maria)
2nd group leaves:
5:20pm on Sunday Jan 18, 2009
4 leaving (3m/1f) (UW members Eyleen, Tyler and Kyle)
Also, as you know, there is a North Carolina group arriving the 14th and leaving the 18th, I don't know their numbers.
From the schedule above, you can see that the only time that we will all be there together is the Jan 11 (sunday) and Jan 12 (monday).  Our schedule will be roughly as follows:
 
Jan 6-10
-Bridge Repairs
-Hydroelectric Surveying
-Classroom Discussions
-Flow measurements
 
Jan 11-12
-Classroom Discussions
-Clinic Surveying
-Hydroelectric Community Meeting
-Hydroelectric Questions (water board)
Jan 12-17
-Surveying Class
-Hydroelectric Surveying
-Flow measurements
 
As usual its a full schedule.  There are a number of people we would like to meet with to discuss all of the projects.  Obviously, we need to talk to Pere.  We will be building some stone walls for the bridge repairs and could really use his help for that.
 
The hydroelectric project is a large project.  As with all the projects we have done so far, this is your project.  Thus we have many questions on how it will be constructed and maintained after we leave.  Unlike the solar system, we hope that once we leave, the community of Bayonnais will be able to maintain the system without our help.  We would like to meet with a representative group of the community and clinic (not just OFCB personnel) to discuss these things.  I don't know who this would be or even how many, maybe village elders, maybe important families in town, I don't know.  I also don't know if you want the power to be owned by OFCB (like the solar PV system) or if it is more community owned (like the bridge).  Depending on the answer to that, we would also like it if there were other churches and religions represented.  Ideally, this meeting would be on Sunday, Jan 11, since we will all be there that day.
 
Some of the questions we will be asking at that meeting would be:
Who will own the power system?
who will maintain/fix it?
who will make decisions relating to the power distribution?
what will the community contribute toward the project?
who will be in charge of expanding the system if needed?
who will own the property that it is on?
and many many more...
 
Since the power system is also related to the water supply, we would also like to meet with "Water Board" to discuss how and when the water is used.  I anticipate this will be a much smaller meeting and we may need to travel for it?
Please let me know if you have any questions relating to all this.  We hope to see you soon!
-- Scott Hamel, P.E.PhD Candidate Department of Civil EngineeringUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison