The two guys on the left are the leaders of two new water systems. They have been so pro-active about getting things done that we love working with them. Here they are talking with Andy and a woman that built a system last year with our predecessors. She is explaining how things work so that they have a better idea of what they're building before we start.
Here's Andy working on a latrine in a different community. A big group of kids came to watch and ended up helping a lot. The project started a couple years ago, when the municipal government hired a business to build a latrine for each family in this community and five others (something like 100 latrines all together). However, the business left the project only partially finished. Some of the beneficiaries didn't get anything, but almost all of those that did receive something were left with a latrine whose floor looks like this....
when you really need a hole more like this...
Needless to say, trying to get bathroom products through a hole the size of your fist is just going to result in a huge mess, so we're trying to figure out how to make 100 poorly-made latrines work.
As usual, I was doing all the heavy lifting (just kidding!!). But I am looking pretty tough digging this hole, which will be used to filtrate the liquidy stuff.And my favorite...
(signs in funny English are one of my absolute favorite things about living in a foreign country...is that insensitive of me? Also, why is the golfer standing on a lizard?)
That's all for now! Peace.
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