Marshall County REMC Lineman Doug MacLain will join a crew of 13 other Indiana electric cooperative linemen traveling to Guatemala in late April as a part of an international initiative to bring electricity to a developing area in Guatemala.
“Project Indiana: Empowering Global Communities for a Better Tomorrow” will bring electricity to a part of the Central American country which has none. The crew will spend the second half of April electrifying to a developing area in Guatemala.
“Project Indiana: Empowering Global Communities for a Better Tomorrow” will bring electricity to a part of the Central American country which has none. The crew will spend the second half of April electrifying two villages in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala- Sepamac and Jolom ljix. When completed, approximately 100 poles will have been set, which will distribute electricity generated at the region’s hydroelectric generation facility. Crews from Arkansas electric cooperatives will work in the villages in early May, following the Indiana crews.
MacLain joined Marshall County REMC in 1994. He became a Journeyman Lineman in 1998.
” I’m looking forward to this great opportunity to give back and provide electricity, which is something we take for granted every day,” commented MacLain.
This is the Indiana electric cooperatives’ second trip to Guatemala. In August 2012, 32 Hoosier volunteers, including 28 linemen from 17 of Indiana’s electric cooperatives, traveled to a remote mountain range in Guatemala. The crews spent four weeks working across the rugged mountainous terrain to construct more than 20 miles of power lines and bring electricity to three villages.
