West Midlands
The West Midlands branch of EFOD is based in Birmingham, and includes over 30 members from the following companies:
- Amey
- Arup
- Atkins
- Buro Happold
- Hyder Consulting
- Mott MacDonald
- Pell Frischmann
- Severn Trent
- Waterman Group
For more information about EFOD West Midlands, please contact us at efodwestmidlands@gmail.com
2010 Projects
The WM team held their first meeting of 2010 on 18th January.
The team have decided to continue their work with the Koutulai community, and have two projects planned for 2010:
- Latrines
- Water Supply
Fundraising and design work are now underway.
On Sunday 6th June 8 EFOD WM members will be undertaking the Dark Peak Marathon. To donate to this event please visit http://www.justgiving.com/DarkpeakmarathonEFOD
Koutulai Mill Project (2008/09)
The 2008/2009 project for EFOD West Midlands was to build a grinding mill in Uganda. This project was delivered in partnership with the Salt Peter Trust (http://www.saltpetertrust.co.uk/), to support their agricultural cooperative scheme. The scheme enables a community of local widows to grind their crops at no cost and generate funds by grinding for neighbo urs at a commercial rate.
The EFOD team began work on fundraising and designing in November 2008.
Construction started in August 2009 and was completed in November 2009. During the construction phase 10 EFOD members went to Uganda to supervise construction.
The project was completed on time and on budget.
The mill is now fully operational and is being used by the community.
On the 12th May 2010 the project won the Team Achievement and Overall Project awards at the ICE West Midlands Annual Awards evening.
http://www.ice-westmidlands.org.uk/news_events/news_view.asp?newsid=3174
It also won the IStructE best Small Project award at the Midland Counties Awards 2010.
The 2008/09 team would like to thank everyone who supported this project.
