Africa 2010

The Rotary well project in Ndandini is a smashing success with the well producing in excess of 18,000 liters / hour of pure clean water. You can check out the Ndandini blog from the sidebar on the right for the nitty-gritty on that project.

Meanwhile, on October 10 I'm flying out to Kenya to visit the Ndandini project firsthand. I can't wait to meet the people of the village and taste the water from the well that we, as a Rotary club in Saint John, have helped to fund. Jon MacNeill, a reporter with the Telegraph Journal, is accompanying me. We will be helping to finish up a fence surrounding the installation and I will be coaching the teachers and students in the Ndandini school on the use of the new computer gear provided for the school as a spinoff of this project.

After Ndandini we're heading for Mozambique, my old stompin' grounds. The folks in Pemba have a very active drilling program already moving at warp speed. My goal, while in Mozambique, will be to find another water project that we, as Rotarians, can support and bring to life, just as we did in Ndandini. The difference in Mozambique is that all the players are already in place. The government red tape has been dealt with. The rigs are drilling. Rotary support could make a large project a possibility in very short order.

Stay tuned for more as Jon and I head off on our latest African quest.