Water, water everywhere...
Wells have been the name of the game here in Uganda lately. The shallow well that we were constructing in Kyempisi was completed this past weekend. The concrete was still drying when I took this photo. We will be having our dedication ceremony later this week. Also, here is the before photo. I would like to thank everyone who was involved in raising the funds for this well. What a blessing!
With that well now completed, we started on a new well yesterday. This well will be a box spring well, which is basically a pipe that will tap into underground springs. While we were clearing the site yesterday we discovered another outlet to the spring which will allow us to make two taps. This will allow the locals to fill their containers twice as fast, which is great since around 100 people use this site to collect water. As you can see in the photos this site is in a marsh. Their are a lot of flies and other critters. The trees over head are filled with guavas. The birds were trying to eat them, which makes it a war zone. They are constantly dropping them. One missed my head by about 6 inches. It just adds a little more excitement to the game.
As I looked around, the engineer and I were the only ones wearing shoes, which shouldn't have been a surprise to me, but this is not the kind of place I would want to go barefoot. Believe it or not there are crabs in this marsh with pinchers! I saw them with my own eyes. My photo came out blurry. I will try to get a clearer photo.
Moving on, yesterday Moses went to Kyenjojo and purchased another large supply of mosquito nets. We hope to start distributing them ASAP. Many of BHTF staff members and their families do not have nets, so they will be our next focus. It's hard to minister to others if they are sick. Sounds like a no brainer to me. With the Kyongera net/blanket project nearly completed, BHTF is going to select the next village for us to reach soon. We will keep you posted.
Katie and Moses have been busy working on the profile folders for the Home Again children. They are also uploading all of the info into a new database. A new database has been created for all the children that BHTF assists, as well as a new database for the clinic to keep track of their patients. This is going to be a great assistance to the organization.
If you have a desire to get involved please check out www.knowthinkact.com, if you haven't already. A list of current needs for this area are listed there. We will continuously add new needs to the list as they arise.
Be blessed,
Chris
Original Kyempisi water source
Nearly completed Kyempisi well.
Future site for a new box spring well.
Clearing and leveling the land for the well.
Ugandan marsh crabs (you can't really see them, but they're there!)
More work preparing the site for the well.
With that well now completed, we started on a new well yesterday. This well will be a box spring well, which is basically a pipe that will tap into underground springs. While we were clearing the site yesterday we discovered another outlet to the spring which will allow us to make two taps. This will allow the locals to fill their containers twice as fast, which is great since around 100 people use this site to collect water. As you can see in the photos this site is in a marsh. Their are a lot of flies and other critters. The trees over head are filled with guavas. The birds were trying to eat them, which makes it a war zone. They are constantly dropping them. One missed my head by about 6 inches. It just adds a little more excitement to the game.
As I looked around, the engineer and I were the only ones wearing shoes, which shouldn't have been a surprise to me, but this is not the kind of place I would want to go barefoot. Believe it or not there are crabs in this marsh with pinchers! I saw them with my own eyes. My photo came out blurry. I will try to get a clearer photo.
Moving on, yesterday Moses went to Kyenjojo and purchased another large supply of mosquito nets. We hope to start distributing them ASAP. Many of BHTF staff members and their families do not have nets, so they will be our next focus. It's hard to minister to others if they are sick. Sounds like a no brainer to me. With the Kyongera net/blanket project nearly completed, BHTF is going to select the next village for us to reach soon. We will keep you posted.
Katie and Moses have been busy working on the profile folders for the Home Again children. They are also uploading all of the info into a new database. A new database has been created for all the children that BHTF assists, as well as a new database for the clinic to keep track of their patients. This is going to be a great assistance to the organization.
If you have a desire to get involved please check out www.knowthinkact.com, if you haven't already. A list of current needs for this area are listed there. We will continuously add new needs to the list as they arise.
Be blessed,
Chris
Original Kyempisi water source
Nearly completed Kyempisi well.
Future site for a new box spring well.
Clearing and leveling the land for the well.
Ugandan marsh crabs (you can't really see them, but they're there!)
More work preparing the site for the well.
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