Completing the collection of rainwater from the renovated roof
After changing the iron plates on the roof of one of our students’ family’s house in April and mounting most of the gutters, we have now installed a water tank. We put the water tank of 1000 liters on a solid table and connected the pipe from the gutter. The connection through the lid of the tank keeps the tank closed and provides much cleaner water than from the river. We taught the son to clean the gutter once a week, cleaning in the direction away from the connecting pipe to the tank. Through this, no dirt goes into the tank. We also bought them a local ladder to reach the gutter.
The connection with the pipe from the gutter can be disconnected; it’s necessary to take the water tank down from the table to clean properly when empty in the dry season or when needed.
Teaching how and when to clean the tank and gutter is necessary to make them aware that maintenance is needed to keep things functioning well for a long time.
Preparing at the land for our model agriculture field to build a rainwater catcher
Digging the holes to place the posts and secure them with concrete to build the rainwater catcher later this year. The water we will use for irrigation. For this, we install a simple irrigation system working on a battery of 9 Volt. Now, the posts stand between the corn; later this year, it will become our model agriculture field, with different vegetables. We will also try out different ways of planting in this field.
Mapping Bonde by a drone
To get an overview of Bonde, we used a drone. Doing this, the engineer of the County can map Bonde to localise the concentrations of houses, which will help us to locate the best borehole locations.
Fast-growing handworking classes, which learn women to save small money in their individual savings accounts
