Halfway Presentation

The next weeks we will be finishing up the survey and interpretting the data. Almost every survey was accompanied by long conversations, which didn´t speed up the survey but gave us loads and loads of insights and perpectives from the local community.

The 24th of april we´re inviting various groups (Red Cross, Civil Service, Autoridad Unica, Corpovargas), who were involved in the reconstruction to show what we found so far.

Based on what we have found so far in Macuto, and the feedback from the presentation, we´ll propose several in depth interviews in other cities. Basically, we´ll be testing some of the lessons and hypothesis we´ve learned in Macuto, and if they have regional validity.

Survey

We are currently starting a survey, which you can download in the download section (it is in Spanish).
The data corresponds to households of addresses in a disaster struck area. The same survey is distributed in the formal as well as the formal area of town. The data will be processed into maps that will reveal certain info on the current, disaster and intermediate situation in Macuto.

Last night (31-3-09) we had a meeting with the committee of housing of the barrio in Macuto (read report: Conjunto de Vivienda), they offered to help us and distribute and pick up surveys, in exchange for recieving all the maps when we leave, as well as adding in a few questions.

Next to the community, we have a meeting with the Red Cross on thursday, who offered to enter areas for interviews etc, which currently are to dangerous for us to enter. In that case they will send in personel to do the survey’s and accompany us dressed in IFRC outfits, which supposedly is one of the few things that give absolute safety in this country.