Hey everyone!
Here is a simple blogging site that I set up so that you all can check on the status of my adventures in Nicaragua this summer. I thank you all SO much for your support thus far, and am really looking forward to sharing more about my experiences with you over the next 3 months!
Remember to check here every once and a while if you are interested in seeing what we are doing/the work we are performing. At this time it is hard to say how much access I will have to an internet station, but my guess is that I will be able to fill you all in at least once a week, complete with lovely pictures and my very own stupendous prose. You can even leave comments, which I would thoroughly enjoy. (you may have to sign up, but it's free and takes about 2.37 seconds).
If you don't already know, the purpose of my trip this summer is what's formally labeled as an Internship, but is really service work. I am traveling with ETHOS (Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities for Service-learning)... think of this as the University of Dayton version of Peace Corps, for enginerds. I am traveling to Nicaragua with fellow enginerds Vince Romanin, Matt Wills, Peter Kolis, Lori Hanna, and an enrepeneur-major, Anna Young. Vince is staying in the capital city of Managua, while the rest of us are going up into the mountains of never-never land, otherwise known as Sabana Grande, Nicaragua. Lori, Anna and I will be working on starting our business, Salud del Sol, meaning "Health of the Sun". Check out http://www.saluddelsol.org/ for our website and a bit more info.
Our plan this summer is to finalize testing on the Solar Autoclave, ending in working prototypes, and then beginning production and sales by the end of the summer. We will also be holding business education classes, teaching the local groups, such as Las Mujeras Solares and Grupo Fenix, how to run a business efficiently. This part of the plan is very important to us, because we want to create jobs for these groups and the locals, and they will have a form of income. With this knowledge, they will be able to carry on the production and sales of solar autoclaves long after we have gone back to school in August.
Anyway, that was a really long welcome paragraph, and I hate long welcomes, so I will sign off for now. Thanks again for your continued support, and don't forget to check back in!
Peace and love,
-Daniel
1 comment:
By the time you reach your final destination I will have changed your bed, finished your laundry, put away the things you left out (a big "thanks" for that) and scourred your bathroom.
This is the trip of a lifetime. You will see and do and live like never before. Your are a messenger of hope and love. We are very proud of you. Stay well.
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