Tri-Pod Set up
We arrived in Apatut at about 5 pm on a Monday night, after almost 36 hours of travel to get there (we had a brief respite in Manila between the 3-leg 24-hour flight and the 9 hour bus ride from Manila to Apatut). Upon arrival, we learned just how busy Team 1 had been! After…
I spent ten days living in Apatut, a small farming community in Balaoan, a municipality within the province of La Union, about 300 km northwest of Manila. Michael Baker Jr., Inc. sponsored me to travel to the Phillippines for EWB-MAP (Engineers without Borders Mid-Atlantic Professionals) to oversee well drilling and to prepare for later design…
Robert DiFilippo and I visited Apatut last April. One of our goals for the trip was to build a tippy-tap at the community elementary school and to present the students with effective sanitation practices. Tippy-taps were first developed by Dr. Jim Watt of the Salvation Army in Chiweshe, Zimbabwe1 and are now used in several…
The EWB-MAP team scheduled a trip to Apatut for additional assessments and investigations October 27-November 16; the trip was broken down in two phases, with four members arriving in Apatut October 29 (Walt Walker, Bob DiFilippo, Steve Kim, Anne-Marie Biser) and two additional persons arriving on November 5. We arrived during the week of an…
EWB-Philadelphia Travel Team #2 consisted of me and Loyda Garcia; and professional hydrogeologist Bob DiFilippo remained with us in Apatut, Balaoan since arriving the week before. Exciting times for both Loyda and I, as it was her first time in the Philippines, and my second trip here (November 2012). It was warming to know that many of the residents had…
The food in the Philippines was FANTASTIC – abundant, fresh, and lovingly prepared. In Apatut, there were new and interesting fruits and vegetables to try and tons of rice and fresh, locally caught fish. Here are some photos of some of the fun and most interesting things we ate and one of my favorite places…