Project Kineta

The illness of our professor delayed us getting started working on our projects here in Albania for almost a week but gave us some good time to see some of the city and get to know some of the students we will be working with. Professor Ted Lewis who was teaching in Italy at the time was flown in to temporarily replace Professor Houston and we were able to get back to class. Just the other day we got the opportunity to go and visit the community our projects deal with. This community is known as Kineta, it is a small residential neighborhood that is on top of former swamp area. After the fall of communism in Albania in 1992 people began moving to this area and illegally building houses on the land that was there. There was no form of infrastructure set up for people to live there so they created their own, ditches where dug to manage sewage, garden hoses and other plastic hoses run to carry water, and self spliced power lines for run electricity. The community has spent over 10 million dollars on this infrastructure but because it was all spent individually it accomplished very little. Our projects deal with improving these areas as well as others.

PROJECT KINETA PHOTOSHOW