by Hattie Hasan | Oct 27, 2015 | Join us in Kenya, Media, Speaking, Trip to Kenya, Water
Completion of the final rainwater harvesting collection tank and the vision spreads to Kisumu in the far West of Kenya. There is one tank that fills with paid-for water that had been identified as suitable to use for rain water. It is near the main building, but not...
by Hattie Hasan | Oct 25, 2015 | Media, Speaking, Trip to Kenya, Water
Today we fitted rainwater collection tanks onto the constructed platforms and the collected rainwater flowed! We’d love to do this in other places in Kenya. One rainwater collection tank had been bought and another was being recycled. This one was without a lid...
by Hattie Hasan | Oct 24, 2015 | Join us in Kenya, Media, Speaking, Trip to Kenya, Water
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...
by Hattie Hasan | Oct 20, 2015 | Join us in Kenya, Media, Speaking, Trip to Kenya, Water
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...
by Hattie Hasan | Oct 19, 2015 | Join us in Kenya, Media, Speaking, Trip to Kenya, Water
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...
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...
