Lisa Hall and Steve Meicke – Lisa, a water resource engineer, and Steve, a mechanical engineer, both quit their jobs to spend a year volunteering with Green Empowerment in Nicaragua. The plan was for Lisa, along with Nicaraguan engineers in the communities of El Cua, El Bote, and San Jose de Bocay, to work on small-scale community-based water delivery systems. Steve was supposed to be working in the same communities, focusing on renewable energy projects, such as feasibility studies for new small hydro installations, making improvements to the local electricity distribution system, and investigating the feasibility of adding a large-scale solar PV generating system to the electrical grid. That was the plan, but the civil unrest in Nicaragua caused them to change their plans at the last minute. Instead they have gone to Bolivia and are working to strengthen Green Empowerment’s partnerships with local NGOs. They are still hoping to work with their Nicaraguan partners remotely.
Blog #147: Volunteers Hall and Meicke
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