This is where you’ll be able to find weekly updates on our progress in designing and implementing the project in the community of Santo Amaro, Brazil.

If you would like to contribute to the Brazil Project please visit this link.

Meeting Minutes (7/3/14)

Justin and Kelsey DUCIS checks

Bring 2 suitcases to have extra room to bring back souvenirs

ANKLE SUPPORT

Business:

Helen

Their professor bought some materials for us so far
- Stuff we are definitely going to be using
  - Rebar (size?)
  - Cement
- Justin asked if she could buy a few more
  - Shovels
  - Tarp (it’s going to rain)
- She asked if we need a concrete mixer
  - Overkill, probably
  - Easy to mix by hand
- Some stuff we could borrow from people in the community
  - Shovels
  - Pails
  - Wheelbarrow
  - etc.
- Funding from their university only can go to materials
Housing
- Includes:
  - Towels
  - Wifi
  - Pillow
  - Bedding
  - Warm
- Fans and Mosquito nets should possibly be bought in country
Pickup from airport
- In a van or in their cars
Early scheduling
- Thursday night- will be settling in
- Friday- we will meet with their professor in the afternoon to discuss the design
  - Prof. Perazzo
- Saturday- go to site, discuss materials, converse with locals
- Tuesday- meet with president of their university
Make our project known to other engineering students in case we can get extra help
Need to discuss with mason about construction methods
We have a van for transport, but no driver
- No international driver’s licenses
- Possibly can’t drive cars under Duke policy
- Hire a driver for the 5 weeks?
- Have a student drive us?
Have to account for the piping in our construction timeline
Casa de Sonhos tank will be rectangular, first tank will be cylindrical, second one is disputed; could be either (we have plans for both)

Packing stuff

Leatherman/ multitool
Bring shorts- may or may not wear in public
Sleeveless shirts may or may not be ok

All on flight to JPA together

Call ahead to your credit/debit card company to let them know you will be abroad

One with the lowest limit is smart

Print your ISOS card and copies of your license, passport, visa etc.

One copy on your person, one in each piece of luggage, one hidden in the house (supposedly)

Check construction specs on google drive

Checking on mason

Meeting Minutes (4/6/14)

Travel health appointments

Hopefully all set up

Visas

Consulate needs letter from Duke and from local university in order for us to apply for group visas
- From Schaad?
- Details about what we are doing, our intentions
- Letter of invitation from local university
If this doesn’t work out, we would have to apply individually through our own consulates
- Our individual consulates will have different instructions

Updates from Helen

Staying
- May be possible for all of us to stay together in one house
  - For corporate risk management, this is preferable
Using mason bricks
- Matone bricks would require waterproofing layer that might not last as long
Topographical data and dimensions to follow

Meeting with Schaad

Stress calculations necessary
Meeting notes on the drive under “meeting notes”
For small tank
- Could either build it as we have it (but our current design is kind of overkill) or we could just buy a plastic one
- We could also double it in size, but we would be limited by the size of the rooves
- Could use as a prototype
Flush diverter: our design would work as long as people remember to open the valve in between rainfalls, or we could just include a small hole at the bottom that will constantly drain water from the diverter

Q&A with Helen- check the facebook group message

Hooking up to city water
- Are they ok with it not being connected?
  - Pressurization problems
  - Could have separate, parallel pipes; one from tank, one from city
  - Check valve
Bottom of tank needs to be above the flush height for the toilet (since tank isn’t pressurized)
- Pipes would be above or below ground
Something on the tank for hanging clothes?
Toilet height questions
- 1.7 m (what?) will hopefully be 40 cm by the time we get there (Casa de Sonhos)
- 40 cm
House 4- 2.53 m
Building another tank next to the one by Casa de Sonhos (see Design>Pictures from Helen)
Not sure about what materials the local community will be able to donate
Rectangular tank at Casa instead?
Helen knows about UFPB letter
- Could not apply for tourist visas instead
Considering places to put cylindrical tank instead of rectangular one

Dr. Schaad working on site coordinators

Once we have one, we can buy materials and move forward, etc.

VOTE FOR CHANGEWORKS

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Don’t forget to send fundraising email with brochure

Pre-departure meeting Tuesday, April 15, 8pm-9pm (?)

Meeting Minutes (3/29/14)

FIFA fundraiser

Yesterday, make sure that you have all of your stuff
Made $135

Jen might not travel 🙁

Predeparture travel meeting

Doodle to be sent out
Safety, food, water
Liability forms

Making water filters and accepting donations

Springternational

Selling souvenirs from countries
Come support!
Sign up to table
Lots of fun!

Panda fundraiser was not a ton of work and rather successful

Look into Red Mango and MacDonalds

Tabling tips

Make your purpose visible

Updates from Helen

Housing will have electricity and plumbing
Mattone bricks not suitable for tank, mason bricks preferable
Paragraph about yourself for matching with home stays
- Document in folder
- Staying with families of university students that we are working with
Van from airport for us
Public transport from housing to university, van from university to community
Lunches at Casa de Sonhos, breakfast and dinner at home stays
- We will pay them for compensation
One person per homestay most likely

Visas

Hector calling consulate

Grad student accompanying us as site coordinator

Dr. Schaad assigning us someone

Flights

Possibly one day earlier

To do:

Blurb about you in the next few days

Design

Pestering Dr. Schaad for a meeting
Figuring out foundation, material
And waste water runoff
- Hopefully can figure out on site
Working on stress with Schaad

Meeting Minutes (3/23/14)

Good news: we should have enough money for everyone to travel who is on the travel team

Everyone needs to set up an appointment at the travel clinic

Contact Student Health ASAP; let Jen and Justin know when you do
Call 919-681-9355, option 1
Meetings last ~90 mins
http://studentaffairs.duke.edu/studenthealth/services/international-travel-clinic/steps-planning-your-travel

Send brochure to relatives/people who may be able to donate

Send out this week
In fundraising folder on the drive

Need to fill out travel form

Passport numbers needed for visas

FIFA fundraiser: ~50 people

See schedule on drive
Food and Donations
Sign up for tabling in the drive
Bring supplies to set-up (at 10 am)
Prizes- pick of t-shirts, gift card?, Bolivian souvenirs?
Sign-up for during the day
Wear your DEID shirts!
Advertise
CE Printer for brackets

Design

Hector and Wanyi have solidworksed our tank and piping systems

Meeting Minutes (3/2/14)

Fifa fundraiser

March 29
12-4, 4E Atrium
See spreadsheet for materials we have

Panda Fundraiser

Thursday, March 20th
12-9 pm
See facebook event

Get grants done

Email Justin and Jenn for proofreading

UNC game fundraiser

Not happening

Brazilian food fundraiser?

Tap into friends and relatives for donations/ contributions

Attach brochure

Fill out project leader survey

Travel necessities

Passports
Visas?
Student Health travel appointments- travel team must set one up with student health before trip

Dr. Schaad’s suggestions

Find out about water pressurization- if city water is pressurized, we could not connect to it
Find out if city water is filtered- we don’t want to cross-contaminate
We will send him drawings and detailed plans

Elevating the tank

High enough for pressure into the houses
Low enough that water from the roof will flow into it
Wider rather than taller tank
Concrete, wood foundation to raise
Look at Hector’s data on the research groups doc
Locations dimensions need to be known in order to have designs
Tank 2- 2500 L means 2.5 m^3
How will we get plumbing into the houses?
Overflow pipe inside tank, connects to flush diverter outflow
Flush diverter- see Wanyi’s link in research groups doc– we could buy or build
- Citizens would need to empty after each time it rains
Spigot directly off pipe that leads from tank to house
Valves
- Instead of valve before tank, add a rotating arm on the inflow pipe that can be rotated onto the outflow pipe to redirect inflowing water while work is being done on tank
- Drainage pipe for outflow
Tank building
- Expensive with mattone bricks
- Only water “resistant”
- Inside would need to be coated
- Mason bricks

Over spring break

Solidworks/ autocad designs
Material lists

Meeting Minutes (2/23/14)

We received the DBI grant!

List of things we need to do
Movie night February 25th about Brazil- try to come

Panda fundraiser after Spring Break

FIFA fundraiser

March 29th
12-4
Matt will design poster

Wanyi and Hector on the CLACS grant

Uzo, Justin, and Kelsey grant DUCES

Deadline pushed back to March 25

Face paint/ face sticker fundraiser

Contact DukeAthletics
Wanyi looking into- tabling in b/c Thursday, Friday; k-ville Saturday

Everyone traveling needs to buy a DEID t-shirt next week ($15)

Design

Casa de Sonhos tank- biggest- probably not plastic
Mason and welder necessary- gutters, roof of tank
There is a mason
Would have to pay
Casa de Sonhos could also help
Justin asking about welder
- Leave room for inserting filtration system in later years
- Insert valve for shutting off water
- Detention pond overflow pipe
- First priority to houses
- PVC gutters
- Check google doc for tank sizes- REALLY, CHECK THIS!!!

Meeting Minutes (2/2/14)

Grants

Proposal-writing workshop this week
Dr. Schaad as recommender
Make sure Justin and Jenn have time to look over grants
Using similar proposal for CLACS grant and DU center for international studies
- Acceptable to apply to more than one grant
Jenn has sample reports
Check to see if you can have multiple people on the same grant
Let recommendation-writers (if necessary) know early
Don’t forget to say that you’re an independent researcher (who happens to be traveling with DEID)
Some grants require follow-ups through reports
Research for proposals in library; cite in bibliography
Go through ERB for human-related projects
- Helen can be cited at translator

For next week

Reach out to point people for your grant to check to see if ideas are good
Workshops
- Monday 11-12 in the link (maybe gross hall 270)
- Tuesday 4:30-5:30 in BioSci 144
Drafting email to Helen for details

Design

Tank 1: therapy center (up to 25 people) and two houses (of 4-8 people)
- How much hardware do they have preinstalled?
- What rainfall data do we have?
Tank 2: houses two, four, and rest of community
Tank 3: Casa de Sonhos
Materials
- Concrete/ rebar
- Wire mesh/ concrete design
- Mattone bricks; no place for rebar
- Consider costs
Look at “storage tank locations” under “design”
Can we mix the clay soil and cement to make concrete?

Meeting Minutes (1/26/14)

Recap of Skype call with Helen:

See previous post for summary of call
Uzo suggests everyone speak with Helen’s team sometime
Dimensions might be ready by the end of today
Consider having some people get to Brazil early
Like their Facebook group for updates

Check out free language tutoring through Duke, and DuoLingo app

FIFA tournament:

Uzo talking to people about renting equipment
Aim for May 29th, alternatively 22nd

Uploaded to google drive (later today): Handout to accompany any fundraising presentations

Dodgeball Fundraiser for El Salvador – participate, bring friends, post to dorm Facebook pages

Grants:

Haven’t heard back from DBI grant yet
Some deadlines in mid-February – start finding grants you’re interested in and think of research ideas
Better to split up and cover all grants, instead of multiple people applying for same one

Still looking for Faculty Advisor – trying to get their travel funds covered by Corporate Risk Management

Design:

Literature Review (keeping in alignment with what Schaad’s design class is doing) – go through any documents you put on the Excel spreadsheet, add the link to appropriate category in “Literature Review” on Google Drive, with a 1-2 sentence summary

** To Do **

Like Helen’s Facebook group
Learn Portuguese
Spread the word about dodgeball
Look at grants
Literature Review

Skyping with Helen (1/24/14)

We discussed building 3 water storage tanks

Each shared by 3 houses
Helen will send us the dimensions of tanks and roofs
Location of tanks TBD

Design:

We do the storage tanks, they do the collection system from the roofs
- Dimensions to follow
Concrete or clay bricks (? Not exactly sure what she said here… see if Uzo knows) <– possibility of using mattone bricks, which they currently use in house construction
Ground should be no problem in considering design; would be built on clay-like soil
Need to let Helen know about materials so that she can see if they are readily available

Water would be for bathroom, not drinking use (IMPORTANT)

Tank should be 1m off the ground for pressure
Plumbing right to houses

Travel

Dates depend on length of time to construct
Help from Helen’s group or Casa de Sonhos would be limited depending on when we go
Helen believes the best plan would be to fly into Recife International Airport (REC) and take cabs/ cars to the site (about 2 hours away)

Facebook Group

Meeting Minutes (1/19/14)

Helen has not emailed yet- no new info from her

Skype on Friday

FIFA fundraiser

Aaron’s to donate gaming/ playing equipment
Have some place donate food (enzo’s, etc.)
Rent out devil’s den
Info to be sent out on meeting with people
Weekend after spring break

Grants

Mellon grant
- The one justin has gotten in the past
Exchange program
- We were encouraged (and did) apply
- Looks good
- Keep involved during the next year
See spreadsheet for on-campus grants in Brazil folder on the drive
- We will figure out logistics in the future
Research ideas coming from Helen

Research Study participation

Dukelist
See the drive

This just in:

Email from Helen
$1500 round-trip
See emails from Helen
Confirmed small storage tanks for houses to share
Sending dimensions soon
Flight logistics
- 20 hours flight (b/c flying into a small airport)
- Or fly to major airport and then fly in-country to the smaller airport
- Price?

Money

Checks to Duke University
Memo on check: DEID Brazil
Tax deductible!

Next week

Hopefully design info
Hector and Wanyi leading

Meeting Minutes (1/12/13)

Major updates from Helen

Travel dates changed to mid May-end of June because they have exams later in the summer
- However, rainier then (in May to June)
- Hopefully dates set in stone by next meeting
Email Jenn and Justin regarding your availability
See google doc “emails with Helen”
Can bring up to 10 people, so 2 extra spots available
- Depending on funding, etc.
School starts on August 25
Ecumenical center will not be done, so we will be building smaller catchment systems, each designed for two households to share
- 3 smaller ones; prototype design
- Demonstrational, shows people how to build them for themselves
- Gives the users ownership
- Allows opportunities to try different designs
- However, may be difficult for them to get rebar

Design team

One big design team- possibility of breaking up later if necessary to research alternative designs

Grant applications coming up

Justin and Jenn will keep us updated
Get them done sooner rather than later
Justin and Jenn will proofread, etc.
Think of possible research topics
- Interesting, original idea
- Well thought-out plan-of-action
- Can email Helen, cc Justin and Jenn
Regional grants, topic-based/ field-of-study-based grants
Encouraged to apply to Latin America/ Caribbean studies grant
- Possibility of 3 people getting this from our team

Research study participation on behalf of DEID

If you want to participate
See DukeList

Xbox tournament fundraiser

Possibly March 22

Benefit Dinner

Most money from silent auction
Cultural items from countries connected to DEID
Fall is a better time

More specifics coming from Helen soon
Trying to skype with her team more often- Fridays 3pm, if you’re free

Fundraiser Update (12/11/13)

Total profit $170 before returning unsold items

Meeting Minutes (11/24/13)

Fundraiser not so great

About $4 profit
Returning excess

Hot chocolate sale during reading period

Flex reader reservation
Friday- Monday
Outside Perkins, FCIEMAS
Boiling water in Keurigs/ electric things
Google doc for tabling times
Morning shift and night shift
Flyer

Raffle on Friday for Uganda
Midweek meeting during last week of class?
January exec board elections

Email will be sent out with positions

Travel team decisions

Interviews after thanksgiving
15-20 minute conversations
Stay involved even if you don’t travel!

Lots of design work next semester
Download Dualingo and start learning Portuguese (this may or may not be a joke)
Tentative travel dates to come soon

Future projects to complete this community’s needs

Keep checking Emails from Helen
Multiproject Benefit Dinner

April
Silent Auction
Delegate obligations

FIFA Tournament

Brazil World Cup theme

Keep looking at grants

Meeting Minutes (11/17/13)

Earings- $6

Small Moustaches- $1

Big Moustaches- $2

90 packs of hot cocoa- $1 each?

Justin and Uzo water boilers
Outlets/ Extension cords?

Cups for $2

Next Fundraiser

Massages?

Benefit Dinner

Fifa Tourney

Travel Interviews before Winter break

Rotary clubs

Contact for funding
Can contact multiple clubs

Fund Codes still not finalized- stay posted

Right now can just write a check to Duke University
“DEID – Brazil” on subject line
Give to Justin/Jen in person or mail to Dr. Schaad

Email from Helen & Design Ideas

More involved than before
Add piping to houses
- Next year
Roof must not have harmful (toxic) coatings on it- would compromise potability of water in catchment system
Wind-powered pump (also next year)
Filtration options
- Central vs. Individual
- Ask professor about BioSand filters

Meeting Minutes (11/10/13)

Dr. Schaad’s class for sophomores in the spring

One or more members of each team, hopefully
To help come up with design
If you are interested- can try to make space in class for you (full now)
EGR 315- Engineering Sustainable Design and Global Community
- Wed/Fri 11:45
Email Justin and Jenn if you are interested in taking

Tabling for Mustaches starts 11.18

Print out and put up posters
Card reader- also back up pen number
See Spreadsheet
Multiple mustache items
Hot Chocolate?

Hometown fundraising

Get on it
By thanksgiving

Travelling

Design next week

Meeting Minutes (11/3/13)

Fundraiser recap

Went well overall

More Fundraising things

501 3C tax exempt
gifts.duke.edu
- Put in fund code
- 391-4871
Fundraising letters in the drive
- Making a presentation is ideal
Frequent flier miles donations
Send emails or letters to businesses/ bodies
- Personalize
- In body of email, not attached

Next Fundraiser

Caroling
Hot chocolate and massages
End of term (reading period)
Paying to decorate a friend’s door
Selling mustaches for no-shave November
- Donate some funds to prostate cancer
- Buying in bulk
- East and west campus
- BC and marketplace
- Week of 18-22
- Monday-Thursday
- Shirt raffle involved?
Brazil-themed event?
- Bringing in Sabrosura
Selling blue devil gear (bows, face paint)

Meeting Minutes (10/27/13)

Uzo’s engineering contact

Waste water management; water filtration
Treating the rain water to make it potable
Gutters along houses in Bermuda
- Not a lot of treating of the water
- Problem: birds
- Disinfectant would biggest concern
  - Chlorine, hypochloride
  - Screen filter for suspended solids
  - Water supplied for toilets, irrigation
  - Coolant
Examine rainfall and demand for water
Contamination in runoff
Detention basin- limits on how much is run off
- Polyethylene liner, filled with washed stone
Sustainability
Cleaning with Chlorine
- Bacteria can become acclimated to chlorine
- UV systems- more expensive
- Chlorox
  - Type without fragrances, etc.
  - Just want plain Sodium Hypochloride
- A lot of organic content ==> trihalomethanes formed; carcinogenic
- 5 parts per million of chlorine
  - About 0.0834 pounds per day, given 2000 gallon tank
- Typical chlorine bleach- 5.25% chlorine- 9 lbs per gallon
  - 0.17 gallons of bleach per day
- Sediment filter
  - Filters out particulate matter, not bacteria
  - Filter does not disinfect, unless it is a micro filter
    - These get old, don’t work after some time
    - Bacteria stay on filter
- Mass water treatment systems
  - More expensive
  - Problem of the commons
    - Replacing filters, etc.
  - Hard to regulate
  - Perhaps better to have people to chlorinate on their own
- Screen and vent on water tank
- Ceramic filters
  - 1/2 micron pore size for bacteria, also takes care of particulates
  - Needs to be cleaned
  - Careful of backwash
  - Sterilized .45 micron filters used for testing
  - Polycarbonate
  - Sterilize filter
  - Can be used for analyzing bacterial content of the water
  - Expensive
  - Not generally used on large scale
Well system with hand pump- possibility
- Could cost less than storage tank
- Gas-powered augers, PVC casing with screened portion
- Seal casing with concrete
- Well to storage tank

Meeting Minutes (10/20/2013)

Robinson

Water Storage tank

“Any system you design is not what you are going to build”
Change based on what is available locally
- Round Tank*
- Rain Catchment system
  - Plastic gutter; mesh overtop
  - Tedious to make
  - Downspout to top of tank
    - ~2 feet below roof
- Tank
  - Plan: wooden wall and poured concrete
  - Actual: Dug 1 foot deep hole, put rocks in bottom
  - Rebar- circular base with crosshatch pattern for base for tank to sit on.
    - Goes on top of rocks
    - Base connected to walls using l-shaped pieces of rebar
    - 142 inch diameter, 6 feet tall, 16,000 L capacity
- Roof of tank
  - Metal beam, 2×4, hollow
  - Steel beam welded to rebar coming out of top of tank
  - Lattice shape
  - Pieces of laminate connected to beams
  - Four inch thick roof concrete
- Outflow system
  - Galvanized L-pipe coming out
  - Use large PVC for drainage or else it will take a long time
    - Flush with floor, connects to longer pipe that goes to top of tank
      - If you unscrew the longer pipe, water can flow through the outflow PVC tube
      - Rebar through longer pipe at top to unscrew
  - Pipes go out underneath the foundation so as not to be crushed by the weight of the tank
    - Run for pipes dug before foundation set
- To washing stations
  - Galvanized to PVC halfway through
- Roofs
  - Tin, sloped
- Buy the right type of paint
- For secondary tank, used 16×8 cinder blocks
  - Can use for tank itself, but 8×8’s are recommended
  - 15 blocks around
  - Ideally minimize gaps between blocks
  - Blocks need to be wet before pouring concrete
- Mason contact*

Fundraising stuff

Scare-a-thon
- Scare your professor before class
Working at football games?
Again, food points reader hard to get; get flex instead
Will not be able to set up a PayPal
- Gifts.duke.edu instead
Hometown contacts before thanksgiving
Letter campaign
- To families
  - Tax deductible donations done through Duke
  - Checks written to Duke University; deposited in DEID account**
Letter Templates sent out
We can’t sell in K-ville
Fundraising event for Halloween
- Costume selling?
  - Ordering through Google Survey
  - Links of Facebook

Uzo’s engineering contact

Building

Tank definitely; possibly filtration (next year?)
Design may/probably will change

Meeting Minutes (10/6/2013)

Remember to go through the document if you haven’t!

Roofing
Mettone bricks
- Trying to get roofs to be compatible with bricks
Water collection system so that people do not need to pay for it to be brought from somewhere else
- Plus, then they can get water anytime during the day
Sewage system
- Not as important right now

Design

Collaborate with group in Brazil
- Each focusing on one project but working with each other
Water collection and roof designs working together
- Gutter system*
Ecumenical center roof
Cost efficiency
- Donated supplies
- Sustainable, repeatable
Brazil team has more access to the roofing supplies for determining dimensions, etc.
- We have designed water storage tanks before, so perhaps we should focus on this
- Brazil team also is unsure of their fundraising ability, so it would help them if they could use the steel beams

Water Storage system!

They do get treated water, but they “have” to pay for it
- Some sketchy things going on here
We won’t be able to solve every problem here, but we can address a lot of issues
We know generally how do build one; we just need to get details on how big it needs to be, etc.
Rain water collection is main goal
Filtration system possibility?

Fundraising

Jenn has put together letters for different organizations for fundraising
- Fundraising versus donations
Justin and Jenn are meeting to set up a donation site
- PayPal
- gifts.duke.edu
  - Until we get a PayPal
Chris contacted Red Mango
- Manager asked about details
- Aiming for week after week after fall break
- When do they get the most business? … Ask at Red Mango
Food point reader- kind of difficult to get
- Best option is PayPal
Tables from marketplace if we want to use them
- Massage tables during exam week
Hot chocolate at the bus stop
Round up and donate

Fundraising at home

New doc- put down people that you can try to get money from at home
Some companies match donations

For grants:

You can focus on one project in a grant proposal, even though when we are down there, we will be working on both
Jenn has info she will be sending out

Figuring out design next meeting Faculty advisors

Baletti- kelsey’s writing 101 teacher
Other Brazilian writing 101 teacher that may be good fit
Some faculty may not be able to travel for the whole time

Deid is hosting the executive director of bridges to prosperity

Avery Bank
5-6 on Thursday in Schiciano
COME!!!

Kelsey and Uzo

Fundraising chair and publicity chair
Calendar of fundraising events

Meeting Minutes (9/29/2013):

Right now, our main concern is fundraising!

Looking for unique ideas that other clubs may not have done
Be sure to fill out the Google Doc for fundraising
Funding is mainly for:
The ball is already rolling on fundraising!
- Chris Hong will be contacting Red Mango to set up an event with them
  - Red Mango will (hopefully) donate a portion of their profits
- Kelsey Evezich is contacting Chipotle do see if they will do something similar
- Matt Tobin is looking around for the possibility of a ‘Round Up and Donate’ event
- Look into local organizations! (i.e. Kiwanis/Rotary Club)
- Letters will be sent out to Rotary clubs and businesses around Thanksgiving or Christmas break
- The biggest issue is gaining publicity for our donations…people must know about them or they won’t be successful
- A unique idea: Flex/Food Point donations through the card office
  - At the end of the semester, many students have left over Food Points that they would be happy to donate!
Some things to look into:
- Airlines donating tickets/frequent flyers donating miles
- GRANTS
  1. February or March deadline
  2. Research proposals, funding to do extra research work during trip
  3. DukeEngage independent project funding

The Project
We need to decide which areas we will focus on. Currently, the sewage system seems to be of lowest priority.

Water Situation
- Only have access to water at night; no way to store it
- Political issues where some people try to get around paying for the water
- Try to achieve access to water during the day
- Water supply system is treated
- Similar projects have been completed elsewhere
Mattone bricks-construction process in PowerPoint in Google doc
- They are like big Lego blocks
- Research opportunity?
  - Testing bricks, properties,etc for a research grant.
  - Studies have already been done on them, however
Design considerations
- Design the roof for a common house, library, medical center,
- Use the supplies they have acquired for us!
- How the roof will incorporate with bricks- take into account with design
- Ventilation and prevent it from absorbing heat
- Keep it low cost so the community can replicate
Logistics
- There is a team from Brazil that we will be working with
  - Coordinating a joint design with this team or dividing tasks
  - Feedback for both designs (we each make one, point out pros and cons in both, then create one plan)
- Try for about 15 people in our group, ideally (not just travel team)
- We are looking for a faculty advisor
  - Someone who could serve as a technical or cultural advisor
  - Think of professors you know who would be interested
    - Talk to them about it! The worst they can do is say no
  - They don’t necessarily have to travel with us
- Travel in July or end of June to avoid rainy season
  - They have a break in the end of July/ beginning of August
  - That would be the ideal time for us to go