Working again!

Day Four

Thursday, May 21, 2015

   

Upon arrival at ITTU, the team was greeted by Debbie, a KNUST alumna with whom we’ve been collaborating.  The business team pretty quickly got into a discussion with her about many things, including what she will be doing during the pilot test.  She was very excited about the prospect of being a distribution manager, and was OK with the terms we began to talk about.  After a quick lunch, the business team tackled a few big tasks; Peter worked with Ben and Anna on a sales and payment tracking system, Wendy put together a user instruction manual for the grater with some help of the advisors, and Ken put his engineering skills to use with Rosy by disassembling, inspecting, and reassembling two of the Leeson motors, one with new bearings.

While all this was happening, the grater and press teams were very busy. The sparks were flying, even though the power was a bit intermittent, and they were able to pretty much complete the building of a mechanized ADE grater and work on design problems with the press.  The second grater for the weekend trip to PKK, a rural village within the town of Konongo, was also quite close to completion.

Rezzy using an angle grinder on a grater

After another dinner at the Engineering Guest House, during which Hayley reunited by complete coincidence with a childhood friend from her hometown in Texas (what are the odds?!), the team collaborated on compiling Trip Notes, smoothed out some cell phone issues, and got some much needed sleep.