Update on hydro plant project

This is an old ninth grader speaking; now I’m a tenth grader. I went in the project to Chad’s farm to try to build the hydro plant and I will tell you, in the name of my class, the results of that project. This year’s tenth grade was the class who went and tried to build the plant, but unfortunately we didn’t get to finish it. We were planning to us the community’s water pipes that go through Chad’s farm and whose source is a spring inside Chad’s farm to give the plant power that would be used by his workers for the coffee plant and other things. The community came and talked to our class, Chad and our teacher, Sara Espinoza. We, the students, explained that even if the water touched the turbine of the plant, the turbine wouldn’t rust and the water would stay clean. They listened very carefully and decided they were going to do a board meeting in the community main hall with the main leaders of the place. They went and, around two hours later, the main representative of the leaders of the place, called Mr. Grifo, came to us with a letter that mainly said that they didn’t want to risk the health of the community by letting us use the water because the rust of the plant would get in the water and if anybody drank it, he/she would get sick and that they didn’t want anything like that to happen. They also didn’t have the money to treat themselves if they got sick. Chad accepted without any complaints and the next day allowed us, the tenth graders and our teacher, to leave his farm and go back to civilization. We were glad we were going back home but we wanted to finish the project. We were disappointed that we didn’t, but hey, that’s life. That’s just another of the memories we have from that and past years at Doulos. Now, everyone just remembers and laughs.