Here is an excerpt from one of Eric Lam’s (student team leader) emails so far:
3/19 “Nicolas and Beto have been fantastic as facilitators and have been quite accommodating to our needs. Beto has talked up our project to everyone he passes. Alfredo has been around all yesterday and today, from morning to evening, helping us cut wood. I honestly think we wouldn't have progressed so much the pass two days without his knowledge. Joel was helpful with stormwater tasks.
“Speaking of the project, Brinny the secretary of El Patronado says they have collected down payments of ten people totaling about $100. They were under the impression that we would take the money. We are planning on letting them keep it to pay a wage for a worker to build the rest of the filters and get more payments. Hopefully this will build momentum to keep the project going.
3/22 “As weird as it sounds, I think the project is almost finished. Tomorrow we will talk to El Patronado and ask them about going forward with the project. Their foreman has come to every training we have had and we think he will be great as the person in charge. We'll share our report with you when we get it written up.
Much hope,
Eric Lam"