The solar water pump project is really underway today. It is nearly 400 yards from the borehole (well) to the storage tank at the school and there are 5 men digging the trench for the water pipe. The ground is extremely hard packed and very difficult to dig.
I was very apprehensive that they could finish in one day, but the foreman said it was not a problem. I can not imagine how hot they must have been in that hot equatorial sun.
The other part of the project for today was removing the old hand pump head and well piping.
The crew got lost in the Nakivale villages, so we’re late getting to the site. The only tools they had were a couple of worn out pipe wrenches.
When I left the job site at 5pm, in order to get back to the hotel before dark. (That is another story for another time). The trench was not finished and only one section of well pipe had been removed.
Again, I found myself praying for the project to be completed before I have to leave on Tuesday, and for the safety of the workers. This is not an OSHA approved worksite.
They also set the tank base in cement.
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