Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital

Monday in the morning we got t the Poly, looking for Dr. Leautaud. We found her in the design studio, we went outside to talk to her, we explained to he what we had been doing and she decided that this project was not appropriate for us, just like I thought. She explained how we are our own program and should not be involved with outside sources.

We were back to testing how well the moringa seed purifies the water. After we talked to her we scheduled a trip to the Lunzu school site to collect samples and to start testing the seed. We were told we needed to travel with one of our advisors, which were never around. We emailed one of them and he said that he could come with us, just so he would cancel on us five minutes before leaving to the site. For a second time we got shut down. We tried to come up with a project that did not require us going after our advisors so they could travel with us. We remembered that Dr. Leautaud had told us something about testing the water at Queens Elizabeth Central Hospital, which is right next to the Poly. We set up a meeting with the Medical director at the Hospital, we wrote a letter that asked the medical director to please let us test their water, for academic reasons, which Dr. Mkandawire signed. We took this letter to the medical director and she agreed to let us test the water at the hospital. This project seemed great since the hospital is right next to the Polytechnic, and Queens Elizabeth was having some trouble with its water source. We were ready to start sampling their water, we even went to another hospital and scheduled a meeting with their medical director to ask for permission to test their water to compare the quality of the water in both hospitals. First we wanted to get a heads up from Dr. Leautaud. We met with her and got turned down for a third time.

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  1. Isabel, be safe and learn. Do the most you can, and be resourceful! I feel your project should be very well established by now.

    I loved the sweet potatoes/autoclave story. I’m sorry for not teaching you how to experimentally do titrations. They’re easy, though.

    Please keep posting updates.
    DV

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