Will There Be a Training Next Year?

I talked to Joy last night. She is tentatively planning to go back to Jeremie in early November, to prepare next summer's training. But not a lot seems to be happening on the Jeremie end. She has asked that KAG (the teachers' organization) and the other professors get together and take care a lot of the basic planning steps. This seems to be too much to ask, and she is considering threatening to call off the whole program. We're not really sure what the problem is, but here are some possibilities:

Haitians don't generally plan so far in advance (or even in advance at all, sometimes), so meetings NOW seem ridiculous.

Leadership there isn't delegating responsibilities, so either people don't feel involved, they have no idea what is going on and what needs to be going on, and they are generally underutilized.

Creative problem solving within administrative issues is not especially part of the Haitian infrastructure right now.

Something else?

There was so much enthusiasm when we left that we were optimistic about the professors joining KAG and becoming more involved in the planning process. Email communication is proving difficult, so we're not sure what to do or whom to contact specifically to pushing things along from here. Joy doesn't want to have them scrambling to organize a meeting AFTER she gets there, with good reason.

One hates to hand-hold, but we're thinking it might be necessary to create a checklist, with little check boxes and the works, of every task and subtask and how to perform each subtask, if it comes down to it. Yikes! Perhaps part of the mission of this program will end up being the building of organizational planning infrastructure, which could have some great externalities for Jeremie.

We're also trying to find more people on the international end, with expertise, materials, manpower, and donations, to help carry these trainings along. So if you know anyone...