I've found a couple of websites with outlines of the PRT's mission and accomplishments, but has it occured to DND to publish on the forces' site a simple, continuously updated itemized list of what projects the PRT completes/supports, with a few basic details such as location, cost, what exactly was done, and how many people will be affected by it? Somthing as simple as:
15 Sep, 2007 - Village of _______ - 120' water well dug; providing water for village of approx. 140 people. Cost: $400 (See pictures, see project details)
13 Sep, 2007 - Village of _______ - Irrigation ditches cleared; generator provided to power irrigation pump for 30 farms. Cost: $2300
12 Sep, 2007 - Kandahar City - Police outpost construction completed with facilities for 30 officers, equipment storage, and vehicle storage and maintenance. Cost: $12,500 (See project details, see article)
10 Sep, 2007 - Village of _______ - Health care outreach team spent day providing medical assistance, treatments and basic sanitation education to 230 villagers (see pictures)
Something as simple as that. Where possible, each item could be opened as a link where more information, photos, articles, etc were available about it. This could be very easily done, taking only a couple minutes to add an entry- and surely the PRT must keep records of what it does, when and where.
Something like that that could be made available to the public would be very useful- when someone questions what exactly we're doing there, all we'd have to do is point them to that link. As is stands, the actual hard facts and figures are often lost in the white noise of editorializing or news articles- or if something like this exists, I've not seen it.
