Today we are building a dam.
I am taking on a new role to go alongside my current teaching one. The clinic that Armorel works at runs a project supporting and looking after the poorest and most vulnerable families. Part of this project called ‘Familia Moja’ (One Family), is the running of a farm. You may remember us visiting the ‘Shamba’.
Well I am now working on a project to develop the ‘Shamba’ into more than just a farm but a community. We will be building houses, providing water, organising groups and their storage and starting a small livestock farm. I am very excited by the prospects!
So today we started on a dam across a small ravine which fills with water after it rains. We hope this will provide the farm with small pond of water for irrigation.
Having never built a dam before we started with a small team (below and Armorel and two others) on the construction with my basic hand drawn plan. The big rocks are down and I return on Tuesday to finish.
Exhausted from a hot and hard day we returned home for Zawadi’s 8th birthday. Sadly her dad John has malaria, so could not join us but we enjoyed a lovely evening with birthday cake and popcorn.
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