Here are a few pictures of the water well completed last month at the
Simbi Primary School in Kendu Bay, Kenya. After some technical
problems with their camera, our team re-visited the well site to grab
these shots.
Project Type: Borehole Well and Hand Pump
Program: Wells for Schools - Kenya
Impact: 500 Served
Project Phase:
Community Managed
Implementing Partner Monitoring Data Unavailable
Initial Installation: Aug 2009
Here are a few pictures of the water well completed last month at the
Simbi Primary School in Kendu Bay, Kenya. After some technical
problems with their camera, our team re-visited the well site to grab
these shots.
Girls and women walk long distances for water when safe water is very often right under their feet! Underground rivers, called aquifers, often contain a constant supply of safe water – but you have to get to it. No matter what machine or piece of equipment is used, all drilling is aiming for a borehole that reaches into an aquifer. If the aquifer has water - and after the well is developed - we are able to pull water to the surface utilizing a hand-pump. If all goes as planned, the community is left with a safe, closed water source providing around 5 gallons of water a minute through a hand-pump.