Gearing up for a big weekend

Day Five

Friday, May 22, 2015

After another breakfast at the SMS Guest House, we traveled by trotro back to ITTU.  There, the engineering team completed the building of two graters to bring with us to the villages, as well as one double lead-screw press.  The shop was very busy, as we and our friends here were preparing for a big weekend.  Not only were we going to rural communities to supply our customers with new and replacement machines, but Monday was actually a national holiday and so ITTU would be closed.

Sparks flew as Kate used an angle grinder to smoothen the handles of one her ADE Ghana cassava graters.

The business team, meanwhile, was working on their respective tasks: Peter continued working on the sales, referral, leads, and payment tracking system while Wendy assembled some receipt and documentation materials including a draft of a user manual and Ken helped the engineers build the graters.  Peter and Ken also did a bit of filing for the press sub-team.  Peter and Ambika took a lot of pictures, which can be found on our Flickr page.

The grater team (Rezzy, Kate, and Annie) aligned the motor on one of their cassava graters.

Before the end of the day, the business team took a cab with Anna to a small-ish market at Tech Junction, pretty close to the KNUST campus, to pick up vegetables, spaghetti, and other groceries needed to cook a big pasta dinner at the hotel.  Rosy, Wendy, and Peter led the cooking while other teammates made smoothies, did laundry, and took care of some logistics for the big weekend ahead.  A very loud thunderstorm interrupted us a little bit, but we kept on working.

 

Kari filed the handle for use on one of her ADE cassava presses while Wendy and Rosy make a pasta dinner.