Christmas and
Hanukkah Greetings!
Once again, our
company is making a donation to the Hydraid Safe Water program in the names of
our customers, suppliers and many other industry friends.
As my
involvement in taking Hydraid water filtration to East Africa continued to take
shape this year, I returned to Uganda in March to meet with key government
officials as well as directors of numerous international aid offices. The
responses were enthusiastically positive, resulting in authorization to source
the sand and gravel needed for our units (in the exact gradients we need) from
the government itself.
Heading over to
the Jinja area then, my key contact Paul Hunter took me out to the Fountain of
Hope school in the village of Bukeeka to see the progress in their water and
sanitation systems.
When I arrived, they
were busy building a latrine for the 500+ kids now enrolled there. It didn't
remind me much of anything I had seen the week before at the ISH Fair in Germany,
but the concept is certainly a time-tested one.
You wouldn't
believe how deep these guys dig these pits. The same day, we went to see
the chicken farm of Abdu, the tall man standing in the middle of the
photo
below, where workmen were also digging a new latrine for the caretaker's
house.
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