Recent and Upcoming Changes on Moso

Recent and upcoming changes in the village:
-With the arrival of the new water tanks and all the rain lately the village should be in good shape during the upcoming dry season as they now have an additional 60,000L of rainwater to use
-The new village health clinic officially begins business on May 1st. By that day the government supported nurse, medicines. equipment and furniture (e.g. exam table, bed, etc.) will have arrived. The government has also provided a new boat that will be used to transport sick people from close-by villages to the clinic. And I've been told that the boat is 'very fast' and that the village has been given permission to use it as a taxi when not transporting sick people, so the ride to and from the turtle project just got that much faster.
-A couple of people have already left the village for New Zealand on a fruit picking scheme and another farmer is in Vanuatu right now specifically to recruit people from the village (one of the chiefs is now the agent for that farmer so Tasiriki gets first dibs on the positions). So it looks like a large portion of the younger guys will be heading to NZ in the very near future. Will have to wait and see how this impacts the turtle project.

Other planned changes for the upcoming year:
-The project will start one month earlier this year with the first group of volunteers helping with all the initial project set-up (e.g. clearing the path to the beach, helping to build the dining hall, marking the beach sectors, etc.)
-Dining hall to be completed
-Cement floors to be put into the bungalows
-A monthly schedule set in place for optional planned activities everyday to help keep the volunteers occupied
-More volunteer involvement with the school

Other wish list changes for the upcoming year
-Electrify the dining hall (solar) to provide a better space for the volunteers on rainy nights, and a place to do data entry (see below)
-Try to source a used laptop so that the data entry for the project can be done on-site. If data was entered the day after it was recorded it should help cut down on the number of mistakes that were made on data sheets this year (much easier to correct the mistakes the next day rather than several months later)