First day - Long Day

We left out of GILLBT (Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Translation) a little before 9 am.  GILLBT is located in the Contonment area of Accra.  We crossed a little bit of Accra through traffic to get to the Osu area of Accra where the PCG Head Office is located.  We met with Rev Daniel Kofi Asante, Director of Development & Social Services for the PCG for about 30-45 minutes.  Rev Asante is senior person in the PCG that is responsible for water and water related projects.

We made our way from PCG head office to Akropong with is up in the coastal mountains outside of Accra about 2 hours or so depending on traffic.  In Accra we met with the Water Committee at the Presbyterian College of Education where the next LWW will be installed.  The WC is a very impressive group: Vice-Principal, Senior Educator, Senior Finance person, etc.  In the meeting we reviewed the System Management Plan and Project Preperation Plan for a "last" time prior to next years installation.  After the meeting, we toured the school's facilities and spent some time understanding their plans to renovate some existing space that will house the LWW system - the "water room".

Lastly, we took some time and walked the grounds, showed Chalmers the original (or close to it) church that was built when the school was founded in 1848.  Took some pictures with the "kids" (the school is primarily a teacher's college with about 1,500 - 2,000 students - a teach for America type model - but the school also houses a primary school with about 500 kids, i.e. An onsite "lab").

Before we left Akropong, we stopped by the Presbyterian University College where we installed a LWW system several years ago.  The system at PUC is not generating a lot of water - or as much as it could - which has always concerned Jim & myself.  The leadership team at PUC has changed since our last visit and we were encouraged to hear that they have plans and motivation to increase the LWW systems production by the students taking on distributing water into the Akropong community via service projects - we'll see.