by Hattie Hasan | Jan 31, 2016 | Training, Trip to Kenya, Water
Who are Water Women; Rainwater Harvesting? Why are we doing this? How have we achieved it and what are the future plans? Water Women has grown from an idea in 2011 into real results in the form of a system that can gather and store 40000 litres of harvested rainwater...
by Hattie Hasan | Oct 19, 2015 | Join us in Kenya, Media, Speaking, Trip to Kenya, Water
We fell asleep to the sound of incredibly heavy rainfall and thought of it all being lost due to no real system for collecting it. After a very good night inside our mosquito nets we woke to the sound of birds and children. Downstairs, breakfast waited. The children...
by Hattie Hasan | Oct 19, 2015 | For Customers, Hattie, Join us in Kenya, Media, Speaking, Trip to Kenya, Water
Our second day was one of travel from the traffic filled mayhem of Nairobi up to the mountainous region of Meru, to Kithoka Amani Children’s Home (KACH), in the foothills of Mount Kenya. Gradually the houses and shops thinned out and as we got higher we travelled from...
by Hattie Hasan | Oct 18, 2015 | Join us in Kenya, Trip to Kenya, Uncategorized, Water
A diary of Stopcocks Women Plumbers long planned first trip to Kenya; Day 1. The 12 and a half hour overnight journey went well, but we hardly slept with excitement. We landed at Nairobi at 7.30am and were met by Peter, our driver and Leo, a friend of seven years, but...