What was the focus again?

Today we had another breakfast meeting at Calori @lämpömiehenkuja 2. We had written our project document and gotten valuable feedback from our mentor, Timo. Whilst feasting on the lovely organic breakfast we found ourselves somewhat lost. Defining the objectives and activities of the project proved to be herculean task. We decided that the end product of the project would be a brief guide to participatory processes or hackathons or sanitation solutions.

Yet we were puzzled with combining our main objective (empowering the people of Chamanculo to take initiative and solve problems in their area) with the concept of a dry toilet, which we had planned to include in this project some way. Urban gardening is also something we see closely linked to these topics.

We clearly needed more to go on with so we decided to research relevant topics. We divided the research work as follows:
Perttu will research empowerment
Anja will research the hackathon process and analyze the previous hackathon
Mariko will research participatory processes in sanitation projects
and Caroline will research participatory processes in general

Next week we will educate each other in our findings and further clarify our objectives and activities. We also need to get in touch with ASSCODECHA to gather information and narrow down our scope.

We will know much more next week :)