A NGO in Cameroon contacted Demotech by mail. They had a sincere interest in many of the designs, related to rural as well as to urban conditions. It would be nice to be able to serve these people better. Still not even the old manuals of the rope pump are properly visible in 'Make It'. It just is an amazing amount of work, taking a amount of time destructive for other projects that should be done as well.
However on behalf or these people in Cameroon I organized the 'Make It'-manual for the construction of the Bathroom/Toilet unit better. This became possible after the reorganization of the images was done. Also my answer to the demand of Leonora and Petz for a bullets in 'How' and 'Why' extends now into 'Presentations'.
The demand of these intern girls resulted into a sceme to present a few short items marked with bullets in 'Why' and 'How' , these two fields as presented for each record in the 'Category' page. Together, these items can be read as a summary that is covered more extensively in "Why' and 'How' as visible in the design page.
This proves to be a workable structure.
The same structure now applies also to the first page of a presentation, such as Manual for the Bathroom/Toilet unit. Each chapter of such longer manuals is in short described in one sub-record of 'Presentations', hyper-linked to this page. I made sure the chapter descriptions together could be read and understood as a summary of the total manual.
The net result should be easier navigation through Demotech's website. Our new contact in Cameroon is the first who can tell us if this works. I sincerely hope they will use our discussion page to air their findings!
How to find out what works and what does not work? Only to try gives an answer. Around 1986 Demotech tried to speed up instruction around improved wells and water pumps in Ghana with the Mobile Training unit.
We bought a DAF-truck to get going .. but got nowhere. No support or support that halfway redoing the electric wiring thought of something better. Now the DAF-truck at last is on the road again. I gave it away to a nice guy in exchange for his promise that he would support Hanna's Senegal project with some free transportation when needed.
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