Monday, May 31, 2010
May 31 2010 Building Community Ties
The entire day that we drilled the shallow well was a welcome and constant stream of the various community members which fit perfectly with our goals of discussing where to go from here. It fits beautifully with the Rotary theme for the next year of Building Communities / Bridging Continents. How great to have so many people and Rotary Clubs from several continents helping Ndandini to build its community from the ground up.
We had earlier worked with our project manager Duncan and set up the Nandini Village Committee and registered it with the Kenyan Government to manage the proposed well for the benefit of the entire Community including responsibility for collecting the taxes which would be due to the Kenyan/government for water taken from a well.
The Committee and indeed the entire community can today see that they will now be moving forward with their responsibilities.
We had conversations throughout the day focussing on how the community can now move forward and make progress and who best to assume the leadership roles and where to begin.
The Chairman of the Ndandini School´the headmaster and his teachers are all well educated and understand the issues and because they speak English this allowed us to discuss ideas´ issues and plans.
Many of the adults in Ndandini do not speak English ~ they speak swahili. Many do not relate to how different farming and irrigation methods can now be introduced with the availability of consistent water to enable more productivity and a healthier life. It is through teaching the children new ideas that we hope to introduce new knowledge to the community with the children taking the new ideas home and parents seeking more information from the school.
One such program is available and has been recently introduced into fifteen pilot Secondary schools in the Yatta District of which Ndandini is part. This program provides a medium size drip irrigation system complete with seeds and training to produce one crop. The crop can then be sold with the revenue going to the school to buy whatever else they need. The objective being that the kids take their knowledge home and convince the parents to use this knowledge.
In discussions with the Ndandini primary school Chairman and headmaster the objective is to try to get this project in the Ndandini Primary School since in Ndandini many children do not progress to Secondary school which is in another area. We are endeavouring to get a meeting this week at a High School that already has one of the drip irrigation systems installed as part of the High School program. This achool may be 30 km away and no one here has a vehicle so you can understand how 30 km can seem like 300 or 3000km to this community. If we can set up the meeting this week while we are here we will rent a taxi to take the chairman and headmaster to see for themselves and hopefully have them commit to a similar teacher supported program here in Ndandini. It will be at least a two hour drive one way ~ by very rough dirt roads.
The drip irrigation system is called the Amiran Farmers Kit. See more information at www.amirankenya.com
We had earlier worked with our project manager Duncan and set up the Nandini Village Committee and registered it with the Kenyan Government to manage the proposed well for the benefit of the entire Community including responsibility for collecting the taxes which would be due to the Kenyan/government for water taken from a well.
The Committee and indeed the entire community can today see that they will now be moving forward with their responsibilities.
We had conversations throughout the day focussing on how the community can now move forward and make progress and who best to assume the leadership roles and where to begin.
The Chairman of the Ndandini School´the headmaster and his teachers are all well educated and understand the issues and because they speak English this allowed us to discuss ideas´ issues and plans.
Many of the adults in Ndandini do not speak English ~ they speak swahili. Many do not relate to how different farming and irrigation methods can now be introduced with the availability of consistent water to enable more productivity and a healthier life. It is through teaching the children new ideas that we hope to introduce new knowledge to the community with the children taking the new ideas home and parents seeking more information from the school.
One such program is available and has been recently introduced into fifteen pilot Secondary schools in the Yatta District of which Ndandini is part. This program provides a medium size drip irrigation system complete with seeds and training to produce one crop. The crop can then be sold with the revenue going to the school to buy whatever else they need. The objective being that the kids take their knowledge home and convince the parents to use this knowledge.
In discussions with the Ndandini primary school Chairman and headmaster the objective is to try to get this project in the Ndandini Primary School since in Ndandini many children do not progress to Secondary school which is in another area. We are endeavouring to get a meeting this week at a High School that already has one of the drip irrigation systems installed as part of the High School program. This achool may be 30 km away and no one here has a vehicle so you can understand how 30 km can seem like 300 or 3000km to this community. If we can set up the meeting this week while we are here we will rent a taxi to take the chairman and headmaster to see for themselves and hopefully have them commit to a similar teacher supported program here in Ndandini. It will be at least a two hour drive one way ~ by very rough dirt roads.
The drip irrigation system is called the Amiran Farmers Kit. See more information at www.amirankenya.com
This week we also plan to visit the Ndandini Primary School to expand our knowledge for potential piping of water ~sanitation ~solar lighting requirements and agricultural potential for drip irrigation project.
Jan and Terry
May 31 Shallow well is drilled
Thanks to your support of the project today you helped to Make Dreams Real for the village of Ndandini in Eastern Kenya.
At sunrise´which was very damp with heavy dew´we could hear the drilling rig and support vehicles struggling down the narrow track to the drilling site next to the dry river bed. At the same time the villagers were mãking their way to the river bed to their scoop holes to start filling their jerry cans with the dirty polluted water for their daily needs.
Some of the villagers have donkeys. ´Some share a neighbour's donkey´and others tie the jerry cans together with rope and then put the rope across their forehead and struggle up the river bed with the jerry cans across their back
- back breaking work. During the day we saw goats and a few very skinny cows race to the same watering holes to drink. We saw young boys lie flat on the river bed and lean down into the holes to drink directly from the same holes.
The sun heats up quickly and the drilling is set up and levelled next to its' sopprt vehicle which has on it all the drill stems´ casings´drill bits and gravel which is put down the hole after the drilling to surround the casing.
The drilling started around 8am and the first four or five metres of depth was sand - the rig operators were choking on the blowing sand as they shovel the sand away from the hole -this all done with the ear splitting noise of the truck engines and compressor running to support the pneumatic drill ~we are really disturbing the peace and quiet here today.
The community arrives all day long - they are in awe they have never seen any equipment like this in this entire area. The ladies gather in the shade with their babies ~later they cook maize beans and sweet potato which they bring to ourselves and the drill rig operators.
SUCCESS ~We hit water by 11am and there are huge smiles everywhere. Not the kind of water which gushes out and rockets skyward 50 feet in the air but a steady stream pouring out of the drill stem and soaking the mound of sand and rock tailings. Joseph the drilling manager beams his smile and assures us that we have hit a water supply that is more than adequate for our shallow well. This shallow well is eventually drilled to around 36 metres. This shallow well will have a hand pump so the volume of water production required will be significantly less than what will be required by the deep well which will be operated by a pump and diesel generator. Most shallow wells do not have long term sustainability - this shallow is being drilled as a backup in the event of a breakdown of the deep well or waiting for diesel to arrive for the generator.
At sunrise´which was very damp with heavy dew´we could hear the drilling rig and support vehicles struggling down the narrow track to the drilling site next to the dry river bed. At the same time the villagers were mãking their way to the river bed to their scoop holes to start filling their jerry cans with the dirty polluted water for their daily needs.
Some of the villagers have donkeys. ´Some share a neighbour's donkey´and others tie the jerry cans together with rope and then put the rope across their forehead and struggle up the river bed with the jerry cans across their back
- back breaking work. During the day we saw goats and a few very skinny cows race to the same watering holes to drink. We saw young boys lie flat on the river bed and lean down into the holes to drink directly from the same holes.
The sun heats up quickly and the drilling is set up and levelled next to its' sopprt vehicle which has on it all the drill stems´ casings´drill bits and gravel which is put down the hole after the drilling to surround the casing.
The drilling started around 8am and the first four or five metres of depth was sand - the rig operators were choking on the blowing sand as they shovel the sand away from the hole -this all done with the ear splitting noise of the truck engines and compressor running to support the pneumatic drill ~we are really disturbing the peace and quiet here today.
The community arrives all day long - they are in awe they have never seen any equipment like this in this entire area. The ladies gather in the shade with their babies ~later they cook maize beans and sweet potato which they bring to ourselves and the drill rig operators.
SUCCESS ~We hit water by 11am and there are huge smiles everywhere. Not the kind of water which gushes out and rockets skyward 50 feet in the air but a steady stream pouring out of the drill stem and soaking the mound of sand and rock tailings. Joseph the drilling manager beams his smile and assures us that we have hit a water supply that is more than adequate for our shallow well. This shallow well is eventually drilled to around 36 metres. This shallow well will have a hand pump so the volume of water production required will be significantly less than what will be required by the deep well which will be operated by a pump and diesel generator. Most shallow wells do not have long term sustainability - this shallow is being drilled as a backup in the event of a breakdown of the deep well or waiting for diesel to arrive for the generator.
After nearly 3 years you are truly helping to make dreams real for Ndandini Village and how we wish we could record and send to each and everyone of you every single Thank You being sent your way today by the villagers of Ndandini ~ they are overwhelmed by how their prayers for water are being answered by you ~ generous Rotarians and sopportive friends from communities all over the world who have never been to Ndandini but are helping them to help themselves and their children.
More reports to come soon
Jan and Terry
May 30 drilling rig heads to Nandini
Sunday was a travel day - long and hot. We expected to arrive around 4pm but it was 10 pm and the drilling rig and support vehicles were still 2 hours behind us.
The problems included 2 broken fan belts and burst radiator hose but nevertheless we arrived and several of the community were there to welcome us in the dark with singing dancing and hot tea.
The last roads into Ndandini have been badly damaged and rutted by the heavy rains in the last couple of months - they are also very narrow so we know the drilling rig will be challenged getting into the drilling site.
We walked the last kilometre to the drilling site put up the tent and sank into the sleeping bags ~sank might be an overstatement the ground is very hard and dry!
Tomorrow will be the day we have been waiting for ~but Ndandini Village has been waiting for so much longer ~ they are so happy.
Terry and Jan
The problems included 2 broken fan belts and burst radiator hose but nevertheless we arrived and several of the community were there to welcome us in the dark with singing dancing and hot tea.
The last roads into Ndandini have been badly damaged and rutted by the heavy rains in the last couple of months - they are also very narrow so we know the drilling rig will be challenged getting into the drilling site.
We walked the last kilometre to the drilling site put up the tent and sank into the sleeping bags ~sank might be an overstatement the ground is very hard and dry!
Tomorrow will be the day we have been waiting for ~but Ndandini Village has been waiting for so much longer ~ they are so happy.
Terry and Jan
Saturday, May 29, 2010
on the road to ndandini with the drilling rig
Here we are sitting at the police check point in mikuyuni waiting for the drilling rig the land rover and the lorry loaded with the well casings and drill stems to catch up to us. It's been a case of hurry up and wait today.
We left Nairobi at 10 30 this morning with Duncan and George the taxi driver. We stopped at the turnoff for Machakos to wait for the drilling rig~~they arrived about 2.30
We left Nairobi at 10 30 this morning with Duncan and George the taxi driver. We stopped at the turnoff for Machakos to wait for the drilling rig~~they arrived about 2.30
It's now 6:45 and getting dark and cool and we are only at the turn off for the start of the dirt road which will be amost impossible in the dark. George was supposed to be driving back to Nairobi tonight. We do kmow that they stopped to purchase gravel on the way (some of you may remember seeing the folks along the side of the road sitting on the floor manually pounding the large rocks into small pebbles) They also had to hand pump the diesel since the gas station had no power ~ yes we're on Kenyan time. Looks like we might have a long night ahead.
Terry and Jan
SATURDAY NIGHT IN NAIROBI
Well (no pun intended) we arrived safely in Nairobi around 11pm Friday night. Today has been technically challenging as we try to get phones working with Safaricom so that we can email from Ndandini using the cell phone and keep the blog going while we are in Ndandini. The skies were blue with some clouds and the temperature comfortable - especially when the sun was behind the clouds!
We met with our Project Manager Duncan Kamau today and made sure we were all on track with where we are and next week's plans. We heard from the Reverend in Ndandini - there has been a little rain but no problems anticipated in moving the equipment into Ndandini. Duncan was also a great help with Safaricom - they all speak English but when things get crazy everyone lapses into Swahili and I could not keep up with my little Swahili phrase book (I am doing fine with Hello Welcome Thank You and Good Bye!). Duncan wanted to take us to the chemist to get malaria medicine but we assured him we had looked after that before leaving Canada.
We have purchased our dry food supplies from the local Nakumat supermarket and leave Nairobi at 10am tomorrow (Sunday) morning. We will meet up with the Naivasha Drilling at the Machakos turnoff at 12 noon - then lead them to Ndandini where they will set up their drilling equipment and may even start drilling Sunday night. The time is drawing near -we wish that all of you - Ndandini's great supporters, could be here with us - although by the time we've been without a shower for a few days you will be glad that you are not here, or at least not near us! We will stay in touch as long as we can get the phone working!
Jan & Terry
We met with our Project Manager Duncan Kamau today and made sure we were all on track with where we are and next week's plans. We heard from the Reverend in Ndandini - there has been a little rain but no problems anticipated in moving the equipment into Ndandini. Duncan was also a great help with Safaricom - they all speak English but when things get crazy everyone lapses into Swahili and I could not keep up with my little Swahili phrase book (I am doing fine with Hello Welcome Thank You and Good Bye!). Duncan wanted to take us to the chemist to get malaria medicine but we assured him we had looked after that before leaving Canada.
We have purchased our dry food supplies from the local Nakumat supermarket and leave Nairobi at 10am tomorrow (Sunday) morning. We will meet up with the Naivasha Drilling at the Machakos turnoff at 12 noon - then lead them to Ndandini where they will set up their drilling equipment and may even start drilling Sunday night. The time is drawing near -we wish that all of you - Ndandini's great supporters, could be here with us - although by the time we've been without a shower for a few days you will be glad that you are not here, or at least not near us! We will stay in touch as long as we can get the phone working!
Jan & Terry
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
WATER STORAGE TANKS ARE INSTALLED
The 3 large black water storage tanks are installed and looking good! Duncan managed to get photos sent to us from a cybercafe in Nairobi (after his computer equipment was stolen when his house was broken into). The photos below show the tanks arriving and being installed on their foundations in Ndandini, being connected to the kiosk by the piping, and the taps of the kiosk just waiting to deliver water to the villagers!
Meanwhile the ladies of the village continue to get their water by digging in the river bed - hopefully there will soon be plentiful potable water in these tanks that they will have access to after the well is drilled, and the pump and generator have been installed.
In case any of you have been wondering about where Duncan sleeps while out working at the village, here is a photo of his accommodation - 4 plastered walls with a an old foam pad on the floor. And he gets to keep the building materials in his room too.
In Sechelt B.C. Canada our bags are packed with our old camping gear and tomorrow we will fly to London on our way to Nairobi. One of the bags is packed with a collection of beautiful new Teddy Bears which we have been collecting and will be donated to an orphanage in Nairobi. Our Project Manager Duncan and his wife Catherine donate their time one Sunday each month to feeding these orphans.
Meanwhile the ladies of the village continue to get their water by digging in the river bed - hopefully there will soon be plentiful potable water in these tanks that they will have access to after the well is drilled, and the pump and generator have been installed.
In case any of you have been wondering about where Duncan sleeps while out working at the village, here is a photo of his accommodation - 4 plastered walls with a an old foam pad on the floor. And he gets to keep the building materials in his room too.
In Sechelt B.C. Canada our bags are packed with our old camping gear and tomorrow we will fly to London on our way to Nairobi. One of the bags is packed with a collection of beautiful new Teddy Bears which we have been collecting and will be donated to an orphanage in Nairobi. Our Project Manager Duncan and his wife Catherine donate their time one Sunday each month to feeding these orphans.
We'll also be taking along a new banner to mount at the well site with the names of all our partnering Rotary clubs and other major donors.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Foundations for Water Tanks now complete at Ndandini
Last week our project manager, Duncan, continued the hard physical manual labour of working with the Ndandini villagers using shovels and wheelbarrows to collect sand and gravel and complete the three cement foundations for the water storage tanks that were scheduled to arrive.
Below are photos of all the school children of all ages helping their Mothers with the work - they repeatedly dragged a tarpaulin piled with sand and gravel from the river to help complete the tank foundations. The Mothers did most of the hard manual work digging the trenches for the footings for the storage tank foundations.
The 3 tanks (each can hold 16,000 litres) arrived from Nairobi on May 17 and May 19. After the original bore hole (for the well) has been drilled and we've hit water, the bore hole must be test pumped for 24 hours to determine the quantity of the water that the well can ultinataly produce on a sustained daily basis. The plan is for these tanks to hold the 24 hour flow of water that must be test pumped rather than having it wash away into the sand. The excitement in Ndandini Village is rising as the villagers start to see that their hard manual work is paying off and dreams may soon be realised with a well soon to be drilled.
After the tanks were installed, the piping was installed to connect the tanks to the kiosk which had also been built. Kenyan law dictates that all water taken from any well must be taxed. So there are 4 water taps to fill the containers that villagers bring. There is also one meter in the kiosk to measure how much water is used by the villagers of Ndandini so that the water consumption tax can be submitted to the Kenyan Government every 3 months based on the water usage.
Unfortunately while Duncan was in Ndandini managing the delivery and installation of these tanks, his home in Nairobi was broken into. His wife Catherine was threatened with being killed and then tied up and locked in a room while the house was ransacked and many items stolen including electronics (computer, printer, scanner, DVD player) but the good news is that Catherine was not physically harmed although very badly frightened. Duncan has tried, unsuccesfully so far, to use a cybercafe to send us the photos of the installed storage tanks since his computer was stolen in this frightening attack.
This coming week commencing May 24, 2010 Naivasha Drillers in Nairobi will be loading their trucks with casings and supplies to do the drilling. They will be mobilising to head out to Nadandini on Sunday May 30 - this will be the drilling rig and support vehicles. Jan and Terry plan to arrive in nairobi late on Friday May 28 and will be heading out to Ndandini with Naivasha Drllers and Duncan our Project Manager.
We will stay in touch and hope you will follow what portends to be an amazing, and we hope to be, a very "WET" experience!
Below are photos of all the school children of all ages helping their Mothers with the work - they repeatedly dragged a tarpaulin piled with sand and gravel from the river to help complete the tank foundations. The Mothers did most of the hard manual work digging the trenches for the footings for the storage tank foundations.
The 3 tanks (each can hold 16,000 litres) arrived from Nairobi on May 17 and May 19. After the original bore hole (for the well) has been drilled and we've hit water, the bore hole must be test pumped for 24 hours to determine the quantity of the water that the well can ultinataly produce on a sustained daily basis. The plan is for these tanks to hold the 24 hour flow of water that must be test pumped rather than having it wash away into the sand. The excitement in Ndandini Village is rising as the villagers start to see that their hard manual work is paying off and dreams may soon be realised with a well soon to be drilled.
After the tanks were installed, the piping was installed to connect the tanks to the kiosk which had also been built. Kenyan law dictates that all water taken from any well must be taxed. So there are 4 water taps to fill the containers that villagers bring. There is also one meter in the kiosk to measure how much water is used by the villagers of Ndandini so that the water consumption tax can be submitted to the Kenyan Government every 3 months based on the water usage.
Unfortunately while Duncan was in Ndandini managing the delivery and installation of these tanks, his home in Nairobi was broken into. His wife Catherine was threatened with being killed and then tied up and locked in a room while the house was ransacked and many items stolen including electronics (computer, printer, scanner, DVD player) but the good news is that Catherine was not physically harmed although very badly frightened. Duncan has tried, unsuccesfully so far, to use a cybercafe to send us the photos of the installed storage tanks since his computer was stolen in this frightening attack.
This coming week commencing May 24, 2010 Naivasha Drillers in Nairobi will be loading their trucks with casings and supplies to do the drilling. They will be mobilising to head out to Nadandini on Sunday May 30 - this will be the drilling rig and support vehicles. Jan and Terry plan to arrive in nairobi late on Friday May 28 and will be heading out to Ndandini with Naivasha Drllers and Duncan our Project Manager.
We will stay in touch and hope you will follow what portends to be an amazing, and we hope to be, a very "WET" experience!
THE NDANDINI, KENYA WATER PROJECT
JAMBO to everyone that is supporting our efforts to bring potable water to the village of Ndandini in eastern Kenya.
We have been working on fund raising for this project since September 2007 when we first visited Ndandini Village on the Yatta Plateau in eastern Kenya with a group of friends from Sechelt B.C. Canada. We send a huge Thank You to all our friends and contacts around the world who have been so supportive for the last 3 years by donating to the One Village at a Time project website which is still active http://www.onevillageatatime.ca/
During that time frame this has also become a Rotary project spearheaded by Rotarian Terry Umbach and the Sunshine Coast Rotary Club in Sechelt B.C. Canada along with donations and very welcome support from 25 Rotary Clubs around the world participating - from Spain and Denmark, to New Jersey USA, and several Canadian clubs from Saint John New Brunswick in the east to Vancouver Island on the west coast. St Hilda's Church in Sechelt B.C. Canada is another welcome supporter with a very generous gift from their congregation - Thank You again to each and every one of you.
We have now reached the exciting point where drilling the long awaited well is about to happen. This will be a deep well at about 150 metres so this has been, and continues to be, a big and expensive technical project requiring constant hard work and the much appreciated dedicated work in Nairobi and at Ndandini by our Project Manager Duncan Kamau in Nairobi.
We thought that having a blog would be a good idea to keep everyone up to date with events "as they happen" during this exciting period as we drill the borehole and ultimately install the pump and power system.
We expect the drilling of the borehole to happen between May 30 and June 5th and we hope to be able to make daily posts by email when we can (the facilities are limited) during our visit to the village at this time. Jan and Terry Umbach will be arriving in Nairobi (as long as BA doesn't cancel our flights during their strike!) on May 28, 2010 and will then be heading out to Ndandini with the drilling rig.
Ndandini is approximately 4 hours from Nairobi on the main road to Kitui. The town of Kitui does have very basic hotel and restaurant facilities. However, we need to travel a further 1 1/2 hours on dirt roads to the village of Ndandini which is a collection of individual mud huts with an estimated population of 1000 men, women and children. There is a very basic primary school in Ndandini with mud walls, rough planking desks, essentially no books and no sanitation or water.
This last stretch of dirt road to Ndandini is extremely dry and dusty, and Terry and Jan are today (Sunday May 23) packing our 25 year old tent and sleeping bags with some dry food supplies ready for the stay in Ndandini. We will pick up bottled water in Nairobi when we arrive to take to Ndandini with us for the expected minimum 5 days of drilling - we are hoping that potable water will be found and that water for the village of Ndandini will be the important first step towards a better way of life for all the Villagers and an end to the daily trudge for the women and children of up to 10KM each day to a dry river bed to dig by hand for water - dirty polluted water that all the animals and villagers share. So this is just step one and we are taking with us all the support from each and every one of you for a successful water project for Ndandini.
Keep watching for news and thank you everyone for your support for Ndandini Village
Jan & Terry
We have been working on fund raising for this project since September 2007 when we first visited Ndandini Village on the Yatta Plateau in eastern Kenya with a group of friends from Sechelt B.C. Canada. We send a huge Thank You to all our friends and contacts around the world who have been so supportive for the last 3 years by donating to the One Village at a Time project website which is still active http://www.onevillageatatime.ca/
During that time frame this has also become a Rotary project spearheaded by Rotarian Terry Umbach and the Sunshine Coast Rotary Club in Sechelt B.C. Canada along with donations and very welcome support from 25 Rotary Clubs around the world participating - from Spain and Denmark, to New Jersey USA, and several Canadian clubs from Saint John New Brunswick in the east to Vancouver Island on the west coast. St Hilda's Church in Sechelt B.C. Canada is another welcome supporter with a very generous gift from their congregation - Thank You again to each and every one of you.
We have now reached the exciting point where drilling the long awaited well is about to happen. This will be a deep well at about 150 metres so this has been, and continues to be, a big and expensive technical project requiring constant hard work and the much appreciated dedicated work in Nairobi and at Ndandini by our Project Manager Duncan Kamau in Nairobi.
We thought that having a blog would be a good idea to keep everyone up to date with events "as they happen" during this exciting period as we drill the borehole and ultimately install the pump and power system.
We expect the drilling of the borehole to happen between May 30 and June 5th and we hope to be able to make daily posts by email when we can (the facilities are limited) during our visit to the village at this time. Jan and Terry Umbach will be arriving in Nairobi (as long as BA doesn't cancel our flights during their strike!) on May 28, 2010 and will then be heading out to Ndandini with the drilling rig.
Ndandini is approximately 4 hours from Nairobi on the main road to Kitui. The town of Kitui does have very basic hotel and restaurant facilities. However, we need to travel a further 1 1/2 hours on dirt roads to the village of Ndandini which is a collection of individual mud huts with an estimated population of 1000 men, women and children. There is a very basic primary school in Ndandini with mud walls, rough planking desks, essentially no books and no sanitation or water.
This last stretch of dirt road to Ndandini is extremely dry and dusty, and Terry and Jan are today (Sunday May 23) packing our 25 year old tent and sleeping bags with some dry food supplies ready for the stay in Ndandini. We will pick up bottled water in Nairobi when we arrive to take to Ndandini with us for the expected minimum 5 days of drilling - we are hoping that potable water will be found and that water for the village of Ndandini will be the important first step towards a better way of life for all the Villagers and an end to the daily trudge for the women and children of up to 10KM each day to a dry river bed to dig by hand for water - dirty polluted water that all the animals and villagers share. So this is just step one and we are taking with us all the support from each and every one of you for a successful water project for Ndandini.
Keep watching for news and thank you everyone for your support for Ndandini Village
Jan & Terry
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