Wednesday November 24th 2010

Hello All you Loyal Blog Followers,

This is a late posting as we were all a bit busy yesterday!
We are nearing the completion of the project and have 3 days to go. Today (Wednesday) we are due to have some more filming, this time at Volksrust Wastewater Treatment Plant. The camera crew will travel from Johannesburg, to come here this morning.

The rest of the project is slowly coming together and we are compiling the presentation for Friday. There are still a lot of loose ends to tie up and it will be good to get them sorted.

Pam is coming over tonight so that she can join us at the Awareness event at Vukuzakhe tomorrow. There will be lots of exhibitions about water and the importance of good sanitation. The event is meant for local school children from eleven schools. Yesterday there was a judging of an essay competition where some of the children had written about water. Prizes for the essays will be presented at the event.

We still do not have 3G access and so the web based communications cannot be achieved. This is a real problem for the project. Marcel has been exploring every avenue to solve this and to reroute the communications in another way, no stone has been unturned!!

Christophe has been busy making a training manual for the MIS installation and he is currently drawing out the wiring schemes. He has done a great job. (even Nikki understands what he has done, which means they must be excellent!!!)

Mark has been working with Nikki to sort out the presentation for Friday and he is also getting costs together for the installation of the MIS hardware on the sites. Nikki is still working on the business plan, operational manuals and other documents that need to be completed before Friday.

We will say “Au Revoir” for now and we will inform you about our next exciting installment as soon as we can!