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Today is a big day for the pupils of Nursery & Primary in Adyangowe, Uganda:
The hand pump is now installed and handed over to the school. 5,100 litres of water per hour are now available. The long, dangerous and tiring walks to the water point are now history. Now it is less than 100 metres walk between the school and the hand pump. It is located on the school grounds.
In April 2021, we were on site in Adyangowe to assess the situation. The possibility of providing water by means of well construction and hand pump could be considered.
The children of the kindergarten and school in Adyangowe walked 3.2km 3-4 times a day to fetch water from a heavily polluted waterhole that resembled a pond.
Many of the children got tired on the way and were therefore late or did not come to class at all. Furthermore, at least 50 children were unable to attend primary school and kindergarten every week due to water-related diseases such as diarrhoea, bilharzia and cholera.
The war between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and Ugandan government troops, which has lasted for over two decades, destroyed basic infrastructure and led to dependence on emergency aid. Many villages still do not have access to clean water.
Moses, the headmaster of the school, the children and the inhabitants of the surrounding villages are overjoyed that they now have a well on the school's property.
THANK YOU to everyone who made this project possible with your support. You are saving lives & giving new hope for a better future for Adyangowe!
Interview with Moses, the director of the school
In April 2021, the Okwalongwen community in Uganda approached us and asked if we could build them a well with a hand pump.
Thanks to the financial support of our donors, the time has now come. It can start. We started drilling at 9.45 am and finished at 6.30 pm. Between 2,600 and 2,700 litres of water per hour are available. More than enough for a hand pump.
Yesterday we changed the order of the filter pipes, today it showed that the work was worth it. It took us 1.5 days, but now about 5,100 litres of water are available for the pupils of the Nursery and Primary School.
The people living around the school will also benefit. The long walks to fetch water will soon be history: on Monday, the hand pump will be inaugurated.
Yesterday we started the drilling work at the Nursery and Primary School in Adyangowe. In the evening everything was ready. But then came the surprise: hardly any water came out of the borehole - even though there was a lot of water during the drilling work.
After some consideration, we came to the conclusion that the filter pipes were not optimally arranged. So we took all the pipes and the gravel out of the borehole again. Then the pipes were reinstalled in a different order.
Today we started drilling at Adyangowe Nursery & Primary School. There are about 180 pupils at the school. The school is located in the former rebel area of the LRA (Lord Resistance Army).
Until today, the pupils have to fetch water with jerry cans from a distance of about 1.6 km. The water is heavily polluted and the journey is arduous. About 50 children are absent each week because they are sick. Other children are tired after fetching water and cannot concentrate in class.
Today's start of the drilling work marks the beginning of a better future.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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