Background...with photos

It's just under three months until I head to Brazil now, and Kate, our Project Director (PD), recently came back from survey with some more information about the project and with photos to boot. I thought it was appropriate to share.

First off: geography. Our home city will be Caruaru in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. We will fly in to Recife, on the coast, and drive for about two hours to arrive at staff house. The volunteers' communitites will be dispersed throughout the surrounding area.

Our partner organizations will be Caritas, the Catholic Diocesan service organization from Caruaru, and Articulação no Semi-Árido Brasileiro (ASA). The picture at right was taken at the ASA office in Recife.

Our main project will be to assist in the Projeto Um Milhão de Cisternas (P1MC) or the One Million Cistern Project. We will be building large tanks like the one shown here, which will help in water conservation efforts. Of course, there will also be a fair share of secondary projects, but we won't really know what those will look like until the volunteers get going.

Well, I think that's a good start. We got most of the background info out of the way. I'll probably have more details after hearing the full survey report at supervisor training in April.