Wednesday, October 30, 2013 

We bid farewell to Thomas and headed back to Port A Prince and the Methodist Guest House.  In the process, we did some shopping and scored an amazing 5 for 5.  We needed to purchase a 250 Gal water storage tank for Tuesdays school, buy a small clip to finish up the wood box for system number 3, stop by the central store that has a broad variety of educational materials, find and purchase two

small fuses for system number 3, and, not the least important, supplies of Haitian coffee and spicy peanut butter to take home.  Our transportation was, of course, provided by a classic tap-tap, but ours was missing the requisite bags of rice, stalks of bananas, several passengers on the roof, at least 10 passengers inside, and, since no blog about Haiti would be complete without reference to a goat, at least one goat on the roof.  And in deference to PETA, the requisite goat picture is one that was in the schoolyard at the Institue Mixte Foyerdivan.

It has been a pleasure writing this blog and I hope it has provided some insight as to how we lived and what we accomplished. 

From a long term perspective we hope to learn how the various pieces of equipment and software are used, what works, and what doesn’t, then adjust our concepts and be back early next year with a modified system for another school.

In closing, the payback for us was watching the school teachers using a computer and figuring out how they could use them in their class rooms, and the staff and children realizing that they now had safe drinking water!  A very rich reward indeed.