Acknowledgements

Many people have contributed to the development of this training manual over the years. Some of the technical and extension sessions and handouts have been adapted from the Farallones/CHP Appropriate Community Technology Training Manual, for which we owe a great deal of thanks.

Trainers who have helped us refine this training material over the years include John Morgan who participated as a trainer in four of the five Farallones Appropriate Technology Training Programs (during 1980-1982) as a solar food dryer trainer. Larry Jacobs helped with a training program in Togo, West Africa (in 1982) and offered many suggestions to help make the training more relevant to local needs. Tom Gardiner was one of the trainers in the first two pilot programs (1983) and made many valuable suggestions and changes before, during and after each program. Steve Joyce was a participant in the second and a trainer in the third pilot program (1983) and was thus able to make very useful comments and changes from a participant's and trainer's point of view. Heidi Schmidt participated in all three pilot programs (1983) providing insight, suggestions, encouragement and the excellent graphics work seen in some of the Handouts.

Peace Corps Washington Energy Sector provided encouragement in the persons of Ada Jo Mann, who coordinated the pilot programs and provided suggestions and improvements and Paul Jankura, the Program Manager, who was the impetus for the manual and participated in the third pilot program as a trainer, suggesting variations and improvements.

At CHP, we thank Howard Raik and Jim Kelly for their perspectives on training and development, Gail Gunderson for her meticulous typing, computer programming and general organizing and Brigitte Davis for her bookkeeping.

No list of acknowledgement would be complete without thanking all of the participants who have been part of the pilot programs and have offered their constructive criticisms of the manual.