Project Diary

Since noon today, the village of Shikunga in Weskenia has a hand pump. After ten days of construction, the time has finally come: no one has to fetch water from the distant river, which also had no water during the dry season. The hand pump is located on the grounds of the Shikunga Anglican Church. It is accessible to everyone free of charge.

Especially for children and women, this is a great relief. The children can go to school regularly and the women have more time for housework and can also cook more than one meal for their family.

Thank you very much for your support. We will be happy if you help us to provide even more people with clean water.

11 May 2022

Today we reached a depth of 54 metres.

The soil formations were a real challenge for the team when drilling.
From a depth of 42 metres, sand was present and made it necessary to switch from air-drilling to mud-drilling. With a lot of tact and experience, the drilling team reached a depth of 54 metres and installed the permanent casing and filter gravel.

We are now close to the completion of the well.

06 May 2022

Today we started the well drilling at Shikunga ACK. We started drilling at 11am. When we reached a depth of 21m, the service casing slipped down a bit. All 7 drill rods had to be taken out again and the bottom fixed at the top. Around 2.05pm we continued until we reached 42m depth at 3pm. The ground there is very soft and collapses. We would have to stop for today. A polymer solution has been ordered for tomorrow to stabilise the borehole wall.

Shikunga ACK is getting a hand pump installed at their site.

03 May 2022

Today our water treatment workshop at Eldoret Kids in Eldoret, Kenya came to an end.
Sixteen out of twenty participants received a certificate and a T-shirt after attending all five days and proving that they are able to treat water with sodium hypochlorite.

Each group received a water treatment kit to take home. They will now treat water at the public taps in their village for the residents. To do this, everyone who fills their canister with water is injected with a few millilitres of sodium hypochlorite. After half an hour, the water is disinfected.

29 April 2022

Yesterday, we started the workshop "Water Treatment" at Eldoret Kids in Kenya.

The participants learn about the detailed interrelationships of the water cycle. This also includes the consequences of deforestation, the increasing deforestation for the procurement of firewood. In this workshop we present in detail the water treatment with sodium hypochlorite and train the participants of the 5-day workshop to treat the water with it. This will eliminate the need for firewood and charcoal to boil water.

26 April 2022

Our two-day WASH seminar started today. It is being held at BMC in Eldoret and will cover the basics of water management, sanitation and hygiene. This includes water-related and water-borne diseases and how to avoid them.

21 April 2022