I'm going to do a few posts that cover the trip chronologically.
I wish I could have posted each day during the trip, but that just wasn't possible without paying AT&T an exorbitant sum.
The trip began with a visit to Landivar University which the Guatemalan students attend. We had a couple lectures on research procedures and Guatemalan culture. Mostly review of things we covered over the summer.
The main take-away from Ken was to observe:
+ What can you see in other people's lives?
+ What product/system can be put in place to help someone make money?
+ What can they sell?
+ What can save them money?
+ What can improve their health?
The next day we would visit a brick and tile maker and TPS (Tecnologia Para la Salud) which makes dry-composting latrines, wood stoves, water pumps and other products that help people live healthy lives.
One of our teams (Diego, Orlando and Mallika) would work with the brick and tile people for the rest of the trip to optimize their production process and see what kinds of opportunities they could find to increase business, improve health, etc.
TPS was an opportunity for the wood stove group (Pablo and Stephen) and us, the water filter group, to speak with someone who distributes this type of product to Guatemalans and has direct experience with the people, production process and the distribution.
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