Project: School Supplies for Africa

Problem: 

"Horgan recently went back to Nigeria (his Mom's a schoolteacher there) and was very saddened to learn the...the school students had no pencils and books... He is really moved to try and help personally...".

Solution:

An Organization was found, "Free the Children Int'l", which provides "School Kits" which contain pencils, sharpeners and the like. For books, the group "Books for Africa" will "collect, sort, ship and distribute books to children in Africa". Another organization, "Books Without Boundaries", has a "Project Nigeria" coordinated by Benin City, Nigeria business manager Onajite "Jite" Elegon, who "has a genuine interest in helping schools in his country, many of them…in need of books and supplies for their students and schools...Jite will ensure that the schools receive these supplies...".

Project Task List: 

A Methodology: Because FOAC does not have a formal business structure of managers, teams, task forces and the like, the current methodology is inspired by analogy to the Olympics "Starting the Games" mission  (which mission represents our given Project). A series of runners are stationed at 1 mile intervals ("Project Team Members"). An Olympics Committee Member (the Project Initiator) passes a baton (the current Project Task) to the 1st runner. The runner "runs the mile" (completes the Project task), then passes the baton to the next runner to run the next mile (complete the next Task), repeating this pattern until the last runner reaches the goal (Project Completion).  

The stage and status of a Project  over time is documented by "event entries" for Project Team Member, Project Task and Task Description/Notes, as documented below in the Project Task List Table: