It's been at least 6 months since this handpump in Twapia, Ndola, Zambia has produced any water...
The SHIP trainers and myself were on our way to help in our mission to learn all about hand pump repair. A sight to see, since we were mostly women come to fix a hand pump!
We had a few observers join us.
One in particular is the Chairman of the community and said he wanted to learn to do this too! So I gave him my gloves and hard hat.
Soon, some of the women from the community got involved making sure that the pump area was clean and that the soak pit (the place where extra water runs off into a big pit of rocks so as not to create standing pools of water) was clear of rubbish and debris.
The children will no longer have to go to a further borehole to collect water
And let there be water!!!!!!
Why should they have to wait 6 months??? Some might answer because there are only 3 guys at Seeds of Hope that are repairing hand pumps and therefore you wait your turn. I would answer that they shouldn't have to wait, they can learn to do it themselves! And that is exactly what I am doing here. Next week is hand pump program development week, where I will work with my awesome team seen here to create a hand pump repair workshop for community members. Stay tuned!
Lots of love from the red earth of Zambia.
Taryn
Just fascinating! Africa, especially, is somewhere I want to go to do humanitarian work and being able to watch these developments through your eyes (and theirs) is just great! Thanks, Taryn :)
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