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From: p.kenyon@comcast.net
Emmanuel:
I fear you underestimate yourself. Can't think of how Dick and I would not
remember you. While I was unable to attend the dinner the response from
Classmates I received was amazing.
Interestingly, I had several meetings/conversations with with Ken Yalowitz in
an attempt to get several Rotary Clubs in Mass. to join what the Clubs in the
Valley were doing. Unfortunately, I ran into empty budgets due to other
projects (one being clean water in Tibet).
Your outline is excellent. Something we need to get out to all of the Class of
1954.
My personal thanks for keeping us involved. It fully supports our future
efforts in this area.
My best
Peter
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From: Emmanuel.Mensah@Dartmouth.EDU (Emmanuel Mensah)
Good day Mr Kenyon and Mr Trowbridge,
I hope all is well. I hope you remember me from last year's dinner at
Dartmouth where I made a presentation about the projects I have been doing in Ghana thanks to the tucker fellowship and also being selected as a Donald R. Descombes Tucker fellow.
Over last term, I had been working on raising funds to make it possible for
some of our members in Ghana to work on a Guinea worm project with the Rotary
club. And thanks to that, some members went all the way to the northern region to
do this project. I just received a report about their progress and wanted to share
it with you all, since your contribution definitely made all of this possible.
I hope you are all doing well.
Best
Emmanuel Mensah
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Hello fellow executives ,
The GYLA-Rotaract KNUST Guinea Worm project in Tamale(Northern Region) took off from the 23rd of January 2008 to the 30th , with a total number of 12
students from Rotaract club of KNUST(Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology).
Day 1:
The bus took off at exactly 9am with 7 members on Wednesday the 23rd, we
arrived in Tamale in the early ours of Thursday morning around 1 am. By 8am
we were at the Guinea Worm center where we were briefed on what we would be
doing for the next days by our assigned supervisor called Micheal, (a Water
Engineer graduate from the USA).
We then visited the company that manufactures water pumps to observe how the
pumps are produced, there the Mechanical and Agric engineering students in
the group suggested possible ways in solving some of the flaws in the manufacturing of the pumps. Our supervisor was really impressed. We also visited some of
the dams that we would be working on.
Day 2-Day5:
We were mostly at the dam sites installing water pumps, educating the
indigenous people about the advantages of taking clean water, taking records of people coming to the various dams. We worked on 3 dams initially because of our
number, later 5 additional students joined us to make a total number of 12.
We had worked on 8 dams by day 5.
Day 6:
We visited some of the Guinea Worm hospitals in Tamale, where we saw a 7
year girl having the worm being treated, It was both one of our low and high
moments because in all the days at the dam, we were yet to see a live case.
Other activities were a meeting with the President of Rotary club of Tamale
and Ghana Health Director on Guinea Worm.
We set off on the 30th of January back home
Conclusion:
It was a very successful trip, everyone was very happy because for once as
intellectuals from the University we had the opportunity to give back to the
society . Members suggested that GYLA and Rotaract club of KNUST make this an annual project, and also take up more projects that will have a positive impact on
our society.
Mensah Ransford
(GYLA Coordinator KNUST)
PS: Attached to this mail are pictures of the dam we visited, we are working
on a full documentary
A look at what it's like in Ghana:
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