I.               Yale Public Health Access Week – Ariane Kirtley will speak

II.             Dwight Hall – Phone-a-thon

a.     October 25: 6 –9 pm

III.           Trip to Africa

a.     Dr. Groce talked to Yale, found out that rules pretty strict, would have to go through tedious process

b.     Roshan talked with person in charge of trips abroad and felt the process wouldnŐt be too hard

c.     Other projects – Ariane has footage from Niger, can make documentary

-       smaller trip

IV.          Meeting for ChildrenŐs Week – Saturday

V.            Trick-or-Treat boxes – Jessica Catlin

a.     Chains – not receptive usually because have solicitation policies

b.     After drop off boxes at stores, email Jess with which stores

c.     Halloween – go into dining halls, entryways on Old Campus

VI.          MasterŐs Tea – Ariane Kirtley, Amman Imaan

a.     Wednesday, October 17, 4 pm

b.     Invite groups, people to it

c.     Pam made flyers

VII.        Current event- Nikki Oakman

a.     Former child soldiers in Sudan are going to school with help from UNICEF who is giving them textbooks and other materials

VIII.      HeadStart – Pamela Shen

a.     Last Thursday, taught for an hour

b.     Director preferred 30 minutes

c.     WeŐll make sure why

IX.          ChildrenŐs week

a.     Cultural groups contacted

-       AASA, TAS will help

b.     Start recruiting children at local schools

-       Make flyer

c.     Involve cultural groups at high schools?

d.     Dr. Paul Farmer – JessŐs high school contacted him, no reply yet

e.     Storyteller Odds Bodkins – contacted, no reply yet, will go to JessŐs high school

f.      Ask Latin America group – LASO

g.     Passports at carnival – kids will carry during carnival and get stamps at each booth

h.     High school students who work at Peabody interested in helping

i.      Red Cross want to help

j.      UNICEFŐs International Media Day – Dec. 6

X.            Ariane arrived!

a.     Director of Amaan Imaan – Water for Life in Niger

b.     Focused on Azawak Valley where half the children day before they reach 5 years old

c.     ¼ children die due to dirty water/lack of water

d.     UNICEF in Niger – only group interested, but story connected that

e.     500,000 people in Azawak, 80,000 miles = Florida

-       abandoned by everybody even though conditions bad

f.      Global climate change

-       10-15 years ago – 5 months of rainy season gave best pasture land in country

-       recently rainy season shortened to 2-3 months, this year only 1 ½ months!

-       Global warming having a direct impact on these people

g.     Drink and bathe in marshes during the rainy season

h.     DonŐt have access to potable, donŐt have any water

i.      Rainy season = 15 mins/day

j.      After rainy season, kids dig in marshes – dig and dig until no more

k.     When get water, donŐt know itŐs important to boil or filter water

l.      Then adults and kids travel over 30 miles to get water

-       Often closest well = dry well

m.   Aquifers, water table = 600 ft below

n.     1995 – big rebellion, before that lots of organizations built wells, except all 125 ft-200 ft, never reached water

o.     open wells never deep enough

p.     Ariane worked with UNICEF for 2 months – but they are still continuing project to build 40 open wells without having set foot in region or done any studies

q.     Should make bore holes

-       But, UNICEF wants quantity over quality

-       Will get $ even if project not effective

-       Rotary Club in Belgium heavily funding

-       Rotary clubs in Niger refuse to support

r.      Getting water

-       For 200 ft well, takes 1 hr

-       takes 20 minutes to fill bucket

-        rope attached to 4 donkeys, pull water up takes 30-40 minutes

-       donkeys die after a few months, and not everyone has donkeys

-       water still murky

-       100 people or more waiting

s.     Other water source – bore holes

-       Currently at ones built by colonists 60 years ago, 25,000 people wait with livestock, not sustainable for environment

-       If maintain, can last long time

t.      canŐt take bath for 9 months – pick fleas from each other

u.     Success! This year made 1st bore hole = long tube between 3000-5000 feet long, bring water up with pump, and diesel (only energy source that works)

v.     Water is pure, no arsenic fluoride

w.   Goes into tank which spreads to faucets and animal troughs

x.     Village, nearby communities and nomads use

y.     Can bathe everyday, agriculture starting, school built

z.     Management committee including women to make sure everything maintained

-       Users pay 1 cent/5 gallons

-       Need to manage money

aa.   Goals – instead of 50 next 10 years, rather avoid managing lots of people, corruption and do fewer projects

bb.  Work with others?

-       International policy and NGOŐs have rules against working with nomadic populations

-       Now a lot of inhabitants have sedenterized

XI.          Trip – Niger possibly blacklisted because Touareg rebellion in north, hasnŐt hit Azawak, but could

XII.        Documentary – anyone interested in working on it?

a.     12 hours of footage ->short documentary

XIII.      Ask other groups – i.e. STAND

XIV.      YDN follow-up from last yearŐs Africa Week

XV.        Media - UNICEF – MTV

XVI.      Rotoract – work with them to dissuade Rotoract in Belgium funding UNICEFŐs well project

XVII.    David Slifka of Slifka center

XVIII.  Photo exhibit at E&PH right now – also can reuse later