PCE Educators Practicing

Before some of the 3rd year teaching students leave for their practical experience, the 102 Educators for PCE pulled them for one more opportunity for the PCE 102 EDucators to practice being Instructors.

Cleaning the tank

The water treatment system installation team is thoroughly cleaning the inside of the tank to prepare for creating the first batch of purified water.

As you can see, Michael is the back learning to be an instructor.

Water treatment system installation continues

The installation team is putting the final touches on the water treatment system. They were able to flow water yesterday with no leaks....a couple of the team members were late to dinner as they did the final trouble shooting of the system.

The water treatment installation team has done a great job the past couple of days to get to this point.

Really it’s Travel Day at PCE....

The 3rd year students are literally packed up and will be loaded up on buses to travel to the communities or villages where they will do their practical training.

Just in case...

OK to stand behind the yellow bus, not so much OK to stand behind the white bus!

PCE Travel Day

The 3rd year student teachers found out late yesterday afternoon where they would be teaching, i.e. village or community for the next year as part of their practical training.

Today they are getting their motivational instructions...

Saturday morning is Saturday morning around the world

We woke up this morning at 6 a.m. to the local community football and volleyball games.

Work Outside the Water Room

There was a group working outside the water room plumbing the raw water and treated water lines.

The town of Akropong lost power for half the day, but this 103 group was resourceful and "found" a generator somewhere else on campus. It allowed the water treatment system installation team to keep making progress!

103 Water Treatment System Going In

The 103 group worked hard today to go from an empty board on the wall to the pictures below.

Michael has done a great job letting the students do the work, the problem identification and finding solutions. The video below is a little jumpy, but it shows the students diagnosing a couple of leaks and Michael standing "in the back" letting them be "in front".

The walls of the water room are solid concrete 9-10" thick. The team took turns with a 5lb hammer and chisel kicking a hole through wall to plumb the pipe from the raw water tank to the filling station.

The water treatment system will be operational tomorrow.

Idlewild & PCE-Akropong

Starting yesterday around midday, the training and work shifted from the Clean Water U Instructor Training session to the installation of a LWW water treatment system at the Presbyterian College of Education (PCE) - Akropong.

I have written about Idlewild's intent to put a LWW water treatment system at PCE in several previous Ghana trip blogs - please look at those for intent and history.

This morning, PCE & Idlewild updated the Systems Management Plan (SMP). We collectively signed the first version of the SMP on the last visit to Ghana in November 2016. Today we updated that version of the SMP with a few changes to the PCE Water Committee (names & signatures) and we identified the Lead Educators and System Operators (names & signatures).

Several of the LWW instructors and other Ghanaians attended the review and updating of the SMP as "observers".

These are pictures of the PCE Water Committee, PCE Water Committee & Operators, and the larger PCE Water Committee and LWW group.

Kendall’s wrap up of the Clean Water U IT Session

102 Education group taking questions...

102 Presentation has rhythm....

The “Mad Professor” talking about bacteria!

102-Education Presentation.....

Presentations

Part of the Clean Water U session is to have each group (101-Project Management, 102-Education and 103-Water Treatment Technology) do a presentation to each other around what they learned in Clean Water.

This is the 101 group doing their presentation in the form of role play/skit format...

103 Class hosts the 101 Class

The 103 class hosted the 101 class to talk about testing water for bacteria, chlorine levels, hardness, and so forth.

After the class room work, Dave Parks & Michael Asiamah took the 101 students into the water room at Presbyterian University College to shoe them how the water treatment system works.

Class Picture Day!!

It’s back......

During the tropical storm yesterday we lost power - just got it back!!

Dan is in his element now with PowerPoint and Excel as he takes the class through the LWW forecasting tool.

Education team making the banner for the celebration

David and Regina

Education Class Day 2

The education class is well underway on Day 2. The class has 9 students that Joanie & Chalmers have said are engaged and "the right" people to be in the class.

Project Management Class Day 2

The LWW Project Management (the "101") class is underway Day 2. The class picked up two additional Instructors students this morning - that's good - so the class now has 13 students that will be trained in the 101 curriculum.

Forrest & Shari Gross

We just got confirmation that Shari & Forrest arrived in Accra and are now making their way "up the hill" to Akropong!

This morning’s devotion

I have blogged about this chapel before in previous trip posts. It was built in 1848 by Basel missionaries that came to Ghana from the Stuttgart area of Germany. I think a previous blog referenced that the first Basel missionaries (3) arrived from Europe in 1828 and settled in the Accra area. They dies from malaria within a few years as Accra sits in a delta of Accra on the ocean - prime area for malaria, then & now.

After many years Basel missionaries returned and this time settled in the coastal mountains here in Akropong. In previous trip posts, I have written about the commentary adjacent to the church where some of the early missionaries are buried and every now and then - Chalmers says she is going to bury me there....

Health & Hygiene Class (102)

I missed the two skits.....sorry!

Taking a break during the tropical shower....

Rains are up from the ocean....

We have lost power to the building, but makes no matter - the 101 classes is having a great discussion practically in the dark about the importance of being of the greater LWW family....

Looking south to the ocean....

If you Google Tema, a town in Ghana, we are due north of Tema. If you look at the satellite view of Tema - look north past the flat coast geography and we are located in the first "ripple" of coastal mountains in the town of Akropong.

This is a view of a storm that has been "hanging" around in the mountains south of our building. This storm is the earth's V1.0 of air conditioning!

101 & 102 Afternoon Sessions

Both the 101 & 102 Instructor Training session are off to a great. I haven't been over to the 103 Instructor Training session, but Dave & Ralph both said at lunch the morning session went well.

Remember:
101 - Water Project Management
102 - Health & Hygiene
103 - Water treatment system installation and maintenance

Clean Water U IT - Sessions Begin

No Joke!

Health & hygiene is serious. It's all about getting the message out.

Today’s devotion

We started the Clean Water U IT session this morning with a devotion lead by Rev Edward - his message was about living life to the fullest, take advantage of what life's gives you and what you can give life and if you wait until you get to the funeral home - it's too late!