Water Harvesting Project at Lambwe Christian School
Since the beginning of 1996, Siloam has assisted these vulnerable children as funds have permitted. In 2008, Siloam funded the installation of electricity when the phone company brought power to the village, since when we have concentrated on providing 10,000 litre water tanks, having found the cost of a borehole financially prohibitive and technically extremely difficult. Seven tanks are in situ but we need at least 5 more at a cost of about £500 each. Single tanks waste water when they overflow in the occasional heavy rains. In the photos, you can see two ‘tandem’ tanks which reduce wastage from the workshop building, which has the largest roof on the site, with some of the beneficiaries of the scheme.
To catch surface water, we are installing a network of channels to direct it away from the buildings, which it damages, to the lower end of the site where a reservoir is planned. This will be an expensive project yet to be costed.
We need your support.
Your gift will help keep our children happy and healthy and may even save a life. Your timely donation could certainly prevent the need to slaughter our milk yielding cattle as happened in the drought of early 2017.
If 50 new friends each donate a gift of £10.00, we can pay for the next tank. Perhaps you could consider a monthly gift of just £5.00 so these disadvantaged children can continue to enjoy clean water and a healthier lifestyle.
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The workshop building, the only two storey one on site or in the immediate area. For many children it will be the first one they have seen. (Many will not have seen electric lights, either, and break the switches playing with them, despite warnings of the danger). This “tandem” system means that less water is wasted during the heavy rains. You can see the balance pipe almost at ground level between the two tanks which means they fill equally at the same time. I was expecting it to be at the top so the one filled before the other but apparently this is better engineering practice! The rear roof still needs a gutter (£100) and two tanks at around £500 each.
The building on the left (below) is the original dormitory which became boys only when the girls had the new one. It needs a lot of work doing on it.
The Tandem System.
Water to drink must be purified by boiling which is cumbersome and, for children, potentially dangerous, or be treated with chemicals, which is a repeated expense. The County Education Officer arranged for two Waterstraw pure water filters to be given to the school. Here the technician is training the staff and senior pupils in operating and maintaining the machines. Pre-school teacher, Jackline Oguta, is translating into Kenya Sign Language. The cost of operating these is less than other methods and the result is safer and more reliable.
