BECOME A PART
The Project Team Volunteers' Responsibilities are as follows:
BY JOINNING A PROJECT TEAM
***AMERICAN YOUTH TEAM:
Work with the Community Villagers to rebuild the Rain Forest. Work with Master Builders to build homes with indoor plumbing.
***EDUCATION TEAM:
Develop a teaching mechanism for countries being addressed for need of clean water, how to clean water, utilizing indoor toilet facilities, and other necessary, educational needs.
***ENVIRONMENTAL TEAM:
Develop a design on replanting of the Rain Forest.
***FINANCE TEAM:
Keep financial records for the Corporation.
***GRAPHICS DESIGN TEAM:
Build scale models of Water Plants and Housing Sites.
***PUBLIC HEALTH TEAM:
Investigagate causes of most prevalent illnesses/diseases in each country on Continent. There are 57 Countries on the Continent. The first focus will be in the Sub-Saharan Region.
***URBAN PLANNING TEAM:
Establish communication with Community Master Builders to design and build modern housing with indoor plumbing for all villages in each country currently under development. The designs will maintain village settings.
***WATER TEAM:
Design and develop the Water Plants.
LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO THE CURRENT
VISIONARY TEAM
SHAWNEEKA WOODARD: AMERICAN YOUTH TEAM LEADER. I first met Shawneeka and her mother when she was only seven (7) years old. That was when I was a Volunteer Tutor at an East Harlem, New York Tutorial Program. She graduated from a New York High School in June 2001, and was a Virgin when she received her Diploma. A young African American female who comes from a East Harlem Public Housing single-family home and is pursuing Higher Education. I am very proud of you Shawneeka!!!
THE Rev. Dr. FREDRICK GEORGE SAMPSON II: POSTHUMOUS ADVISIOR has gone home, but this PROJECT is dedicated to him and would not have been realized had it not been for him. The Rev. Dr. F.G. Sampson II walked the Walked! Thank you Dr. Sampson!!!
MARTIN O. OBENG: REASSURANCE TEAM LEADER, was born and raised in Ghana West Africa and is the son of the first Pediatrician in Ghana West Africa. His mother Catherine Waddlington-Obeng was a Registered Nurse from Mississippi and was also a Co-Founder of the Charles H. Wright African American Museum in Detroit, MI. Thank you Martin for believing in what God has called me to do for the Mother Land and for being so Spiritually Supportive!
LINDA McCOGGLE: FOUNDER, PRESIDENT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CHAIR of BOARD of DIRECTORS, & WATER TEAM LEADER, believes in what she is doing and since The Rev. Dr. F.G. Sampson II told her that GOD had HIS HAND on her, she now understands some of the paths she has walked before getting to the most important lesson she learned from this Great Messenger of GOD. Linda in 1997 traveled to Senegal, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Cote d'Ivoire West Africa. Thank you GOD for choosing me, along with YOUR other chosen ones to do YOUR WILL!!!
GERALD KEITH McCOGGLE: VICE CHAIR of the BOARD of DIRECTORS & GRAPHICS TEAM LEADER, is the third son of my four brothers and he is the sixth child of our mother's seven children. Thank you Keith for being in my favorite brother!!!
JAMES E. HEATH: HONORARY MEMBER of BOARD of DIRECTORS has taught me water. Mr. Heath was the Assistant Director of Water Operations and Supply for the City of Detroit Water Department, now retired. Thank you Mr. Heath for being a great and wonderful teacher and upstanding father figure! He knows his water!!!
JON DeBOER: PROJECT CONSULTANT is Retired from his position as Director of International Affairs of the American Water Works Association (AWWA). Thank you Mr. DeBoer for believing that I can and will achieve this VISION and for seeing the need!!
Mrs. JENNIFER I. BOWEN: MEMBER of BOARD of DIRECTORS is Family Resource Librarian at Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, Michigan. For the last two years that I have known her I have oberverved Jenniffer to be a sincere individual. Thank you Jennifer for joining in the VISION QUEST!!!
Mrs. CATHERINE A. BLACKWELL is the QUEEN MOTHER and is know as MOTHER AFRICA in DETROIT. She has been to the Continent of Africa sixty-five time, since 1960 and to forty-one Countries the last one being Namibia in December 2000. She has been installed as Queen Mother in two Countries in three separate villages. She is currently archiving her forty years of travel through the CATHERINE A. BLACKWELL FOUNDATION. Mrs. Blackwell is a retired Detroit School Teacher. Thank you Mrs. Blackwell for giving me your support and for believing in this VISION, as well as sharing with me your wonderful words of Wisdom and Encouragement. She was born on December 10, 1919. Thank you Mrs. Blackwell!!!
AUCKHINLECK KWAME ADOW : VICE PRESIDENT
LILY ABLONDI: CHIEF of STAFF & ENVIRONMENTAL TEAM LEADER is my best friend. We met in 1984 when we were both employed at Procter and Gamble. We have been best friends ever since. Lily received her degree in Chemical Engineering from MIT. Thank you Lily for being my best friend!!!
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