IATA, AFI RUNWAY SAFETY WORKSHOP

This week, the Girls have been involved in an IATA runway safety workshop, focusing on runway excursions and how to prevent them The Girls arrived at the conference and got put in groups to discuss scenarios on runway excursions and incursions, based on the exercise, the outcome analysis was that, runway excursions and incursions generally occur through a combination of factors such as planning, infrastructural, maintenance, meteorological and can it was observed that the runway excursion rate can be addressed in Africa through the implementation of multi disciplinary runway safety teams. The day after this, We run a safety training at the airfield for all staff and some selected visitors.

A day of lot of drilling

We all chipped into the workshop this morning and started drilling holes in the wing skeleton in order to get it ready for skinning. The first year student group are designated 'sparrows' and the third year students 'seagulls'... The day started with the Seagulls teaching the sparrows the names of all the tools in the workshop and after about an hour, the sparrows were able to identify the different tools comfortably. As the day progressed, there was a lot of drilling, cleco work, de-burring, de-greasing and cortecking parts for mating and riveting.

Start of term

The Girls got ready early this morning for the start of term. The most important thing they learnt this morning was about Health and Safety at the work place since they are involved with the use of dangerous tools in the workshops. PPE(personal protective equipment), the different hazards at the work place and measures to prevent them.

School resumes tomorrow

Since school starts tomorrow for the AvTech Girls, in preparation, we have been busy setting up the new training centre ready for the start of term. The chairs, computer, projector and everything to make the training centre comfortable. Our sincere thanks goes to Francis Norman for supporting us achieve this joint MoM/Avtech facility.

Patricia Mawuli on CCTV

Patricia Mawuli, Teacher, instructor, Pilot, engineer... Amazing!

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BUILDING SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS

The Girls were in one of the local camps today teaching them how to purify their drinking water through the use of SODIS (Solar Disinfection). This lesson for the local community is to alert them, on how to improve on their health in regards to clean drinking water. The idea behind letting the local Girls teach their own people is so that, they can relate to the Girls easily, which leads to long term sustainability. Our long term goal is to impart the knowledge that Medicine on the Move team have, to others in need, since they will take pride in what they are doing to help their own future. The Girls love this idea of teaching people. They enjoy it , this is where their joy comes from.

ANOTHER TERM HAS BEGUN

A busy term has begun for the AvTech Girls; they have received a female teacher who is focusing on creative writing with them. Since they all began their term with writing their own stories after they had read Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach. The Girls started their term with great energy and enthusiasm, because the book they read, talks about hard work and determination being the key to success. They all came up with their own brilliant seagull stories. Rachelle who is working closely with them on improving their writing skills, gave them a vocabulary to memorize and get familiar with how to spell it. The word was (SUPERCALIFRAGILLISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS), the girls loved the new word that sounded nice and is encouraging them to work hard on their writing skills and to be able to interact with other people professionally. This week, they are going through the Rotax 912iS engine manual since we have one arriving soon. The Girls are finding the project very interesting because is opening new opportunity to them, which no other institution on the Continent offers to their Students at this stage. They are looking forward to the engine’s arrival.