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Volunteer Abroad: Community Building and Water Infrastructure Project in Jamaica.
This is a one off project with set dates between Monday, January 5th and Wednesday, February 4th 2009.
Projects Abroad has been asked to provide volunteer manpower to complete two building and water-related infrastructure projects at an orphanage and primary school in Jamaica.
Volunteers Needed!
We need to recruit 9 volunteers for this project. They can be skilled or unskilled, but need to be ready for a physical challenge. We are looking for:
- Electricians
- Builders
- Plumbers
- Carpenters
- Civil and mechanical engineer (these can also be students or graduates who can assist with planning, designing foundations and doing drawings)
Volunteers should arrive on the 3rd January 2009. The work will last for one month. The price will be the same as a month on a Care Project in Jamaica.
Project Overview
The idea for this project work came from Wendy Tisdell, a previous volunteer in Jamaica who runs a pumping solutions company, Primepump. They are experts in pumping and water infrastructure in the mining and industrial sector. While volunteering with us in Jamaica, she decided to use the expertise of her firm to help the needs of an orphanage and school in Mandeville. They are now going to complete two separate water-related infrastructure projects, one at New Hope Orphanage and one at McIntosh Primary School.
Primepump will provide the on the ground expertise and funding while Projects Abroad will provide the volunteer workers.
The project at New Hope Orphanage is to refurbish an existing water tank. We will install a solar powered hot water heating system to supply hot water for the children. We will also build a garden including fencing and irrigation. New Hope is an extremely poor orphanage with very basic facilities. It is based in a residential area of Mandeville. Our Care volunteers here help to look after 30 orphans aged between 1 month and 5 years old. This part of the project will run for the first two weeks.
The second two weeks of the project will focus on McIntosh Primary School. This school has severe water issues. The project is to build a water storage system with an electric pump to carry the water to the ablution block. We will also refurbish the ablution block. McIntosh Primary is a government school with 923 students, even though the official capacity is 400!