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Our Trip to Kenya – Day 6
A productive day and a long one as we construct Gabion Baskets for the rainwater harvesting system at KACH in Kenya A day of very hard work in spite of it being a public holiday throughout Kenya. Because it was a holiday, Festus, a young person who spent his childhood...
Our Trip to Kenya – Day 5
The real work of fixing and improving the rainwater harvesting system begins. In Kenya, rainwater is mostly not harvested. We're going to use low tech methods so the system can be easily maintained. Very heavy rain again overnight. We came down to quiet as the...
Our Trip to Kenya – Day 4
The work on the plumbing begins in earnest. The planning for this phase of fixing and improving the rainwater harvesting system is done, now it's time for the preparatory work here at KACH in Kenya. Less heavy rain this time, but the Meru water that supplies our...
Our Trip to Kenya – Day 3
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...
Our Trip to Kenya – Day 2
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...
Our First Day in Kenya
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...
Join Stopcocks Women Plumbers and Builders
An outline of some of the reasons women join Stopcocks Women Plumbers and Builders. We've written blogs about training, blogs about mentoring, blogs to bring the website to the top of Google, and lots of blogs about gender diversity in the industry but not many blogs...
More on the Plumber Training Maze
[vc_row 0=""][vc_column][vc_column_text 0=""] This information will help you find your way through the confusing plumber training maze, whether you're male or female. If you're a woman, please read till the end, plumbing is a great career for a woman and if you want...
Scandal
Mica May, Director of Marketing for Stopcocks Women Plumbers and Builders looks at the scandal of the low numbers of women successfully pursuing careers in construction. Why is it that the of low numbers of women in IT, Architecture, Astro-Physics are...
The Importance of Mentoring
Stopcocks Women Plumbers licencees receive phone and on-site mentoring as part of the service. Mica May; Co-Director explains why this is so important. "It's very different when you're in such a tiny minority". Female plumbers and other women in trades know that when...