Refrigeration Workshop.
During the 2 week May holiday Ebule RTC Hosted a workshop on repairing refrigerators and air conditioners. Becos of the run down state of Ebule we were worried it would ever get off the ground – but sure enough on the day the course was due to begin 10 students arrived from around the Island.
The tutor, Sam, has worked for a refrigeration company in Vila for several years. After a small amount of theory it was in to some practical. Several fridges and freezers “turned up “ from the local community and the process began of regassing, hunting for leaks and diagnosing faults. As you can imagine in a climate such as this fridges / freezers are incredibly useful but get a bit of a hard time on limited power / power surges / generators and continually being turned on and off. Roger gave a morning session on understanding basic concepts behind refrigeration – and on some basic maths.
According to Sam there is no formal training available in this area at all and his training has simply been on the job. So this was really a first. On a couple of afternoons the students helped in clearing ground for the Ebule gardens. Elder Naura and his wife worked had at keeping the students fed well on rice, fish, bananas, manioc and stew.
In the second week the students had a one day field trip to Vila to look at different air conditioning systems. This involved turning up to various organisations and asking to look through there buildings - or climb on their roofs!! – to look at how their systems worked.
The final night was dinner at Bamboo Beach and presentation of certificates. So despite the odds the course was a relative success and we hope the students return with useful skills
During the 2 week May holiday Ebule RTC Hosted a workshop on repairing refrigerators and air conditioners. Becos of the run down state of Ebule we were worried it would ever get off the ground – but sure enough on the day the course was due to begin 10 students arrived from around the Island.
The tutor, Sam, has worked for a refrigeration company in Vila for several years. After a small amount of theory it was in to some practical. Several fridges and freezers “turned up “ from the local community and the process began of regassing, hunting for leaks and diagnosing faults. As you can imagine in a climate such as this fridges / freezers are incredibly useful but get a bit of a hard time on limited power / power surges / generators and continually being turned on and off. Roger gave a morning session on understanding basic concepts behind refrigeration – and on some basic maths.
According to Sam there is no formal training available in this area at all and his training has simply been on the job. So this was really a first. On a couple of afternoons the students helped in clearing ground for the Ebule gardens. Elder Naura and his wife worked had at keeping the students fed well on rice, fish, bananas, manioc and stew.
In the second week the students had a one day field trip to Vila to look at different air conditioning systems. This involved turning up to various organisations and asking to look through there buildings - or climb on their roofs!! – to look at how their systems worked.
The final night was dinner at Bamboo Beach and presentation of certificates. So despite the odds the course was a relative success and we hope the students return with useful skills
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