JumpStart International

Bumped into the General Director of Baghdad Electricity Ministry again today, as he was touring our site. He seemed pretty happy to see the workers, although he thought we could use about 75 workers instead of the 35 or so we had today. I agree (although we started with a smaller number of workers, anyway, just to figure out the flow and set up the dynamics, etc)... especially if you consider that were only clearing 3 of the warehouses right now. But I think a team of 50 will for sure be able to get the work done on the first three by the end of next week, at least in terms of clearing and cleaning the building and maybe removing the damaged roof of the first warehouse.

Reconstruction and finishing work is another story. Reminds me that yesterday there was a group of reconstruction people in from the CPA, along with their security forces, etc. Hope to get them to help on this project, although they were just there to advise/work on an inventory management system. I think they were surprised to see a Westerner there, especially someone doing reconstruction work! But I hope they can help, especially in terms of the heavy equipment.