Ms. Wustner is part of the pilot team of six volunteers for Geekcorps, a high-tech version of the Peace Corps.
Stripping for charity have been Countryside Alliance chapters, pro-hunting groups, sports clubs, farmers from Devon, chefs in Suffolk, a Royal Air Force pilot team, a fire brigade in suburban Manchester and the Sir Watkins Williams-Wynn's Hunt in Cheshire, which Prince Charles has often ridden with.
However, the local mayor Stephen Bunney said the town's Portas Pilot team, called the Market Rasen Business Initiative Group – or MR BIG – had improved the prospects for the town by backing new businesses including a greengrocer's and setting up a local market, which had attracted thousands of new shoppers.
Over 12 organizations participated in training, toolkit dissemination, and technical engagement with the pilot team.
The pilot team staff were limited to supporting process evaluation data collection and documentation while the CU MSPH research staff (n = 3) conducted final evaluation activities.
Through trainings and advocacy, the pilot team articulated the need for a more comprehensive response targeting the three key components of MHM (information, supplies, infrastructure, see Fig. 1).
The pilot team was also successful in helping to facilitate a few small-scale activities in conjunction with specific sectoral leads, both WASH and other sectors, which aimed to target particularly vulnerable populations (Table 3).
Table 3 Overview of small-scale MHM projects introduced by the pilot team Activity Description Coverage Border point intervention: provide a basic MHM response for girls and women upon arrival.
The pilot team intentionally presented MHM as not a new program or separate activity but rather a critical aspect of a response that should become an integrated component of routine response.
The Mail-Pilot team leads with "Your inbox is now a to-do list…" It hadn't struck me until reading this tagline how much sense this sort of approach makes.
They gave the go-ahead to send a pilot team through the program in the Fall semester, with the potential for it to be applied across the entire course if we delivered results.
