Progress Report 2: Well-digging Commenced

It's been too long since I've written an update, but travels have kept me away from Makindu the majority of the past couple of months. I'm now back for a week and have visited the children's educational activity center. Truck-loads of lava rocks are being delivered, which will be constructed into fence pillars.



As for water, well-digging has commences and * fingers crossed * we hit water before too long. The well is being dug by hand, going through multiple layers of dirt, sand, and rock. As of two days ago, they were through the first major layer of dirt and preliminary hard layer was being chiseled away by hand with a pick and hammer.



The play structures have been started too - with one slide completed and a set of swings ready to be assembled. We are switching to a metal works shop (called a 'fundi') in our town rather than the neighboring town to reduce the costs of middlemen and transport. I'll be visiting the fundi this week to check on progress, and talking to the engineer that designed the equipment to discuss the rising metal prices and come up with a plan to maximize the funds for construction of the most play equipment. I'll keep the updates coming! Thanks again for supporting this project and following its development.