Uganda – How Many Cows

Uganda (February)

29 Sep 2020

This post includes some videos to get a look at the our construction, some scenery and how the kids collect water in some areas of Uganda … More Uganda (February)

Are the projects Sustainable?

13 Feb 2020

A couple weeks down and everything is going so well!!!! … More Are the projects Sustainable?

Bahamas, hiking and jumping back on a plane

29 Jan 2020

I never wrote a blog about my first experience as a WaSH Engineer for Disaster Response in Barbuda back in 2017/2018. It was a difficult trip and I had a lot going on (Haiti Project) as soon as I got home, so I never took the time to go back and write any of my … More Bahamas, hiking and jumping back on a plane

Meet Washington!

5 Nov 2018

Washington has been on our team since 2012! … More Meet Washington!

The wheels on my car go round and round

27 Sep 2017

Managing projects, training new well drillers, guest speaking and seeing friends tie the knot. This busy summer has flown by so fast that I don’t even feel unpacked from Haiti as I pack for Panama. … More The wheels on my car go round and round

Bulldozer

17 Nov 2016

It’s been tough to get a strong enough cell signal to update recently, so here is a continuation from the last post about Uganda (Down Goes the Pipe). After leaving the Rosser family with my new awesome rock breaking tool that they welded from the leafspring, I spent 11 hours on buses and got to … More Bulldozer

Down goes the pipe!

5 Nov 2016

For three days, we tried to break out that rock and for three days, we chipped away at it, pulled out buckets of soil and rock pieces and yet, we did not progress past 87′. The fact that we have an 87′ borehole is exciting for me – it’s the deepest I’ve drilled to date! … More Down goes the pipe!

Rain, rain, please STAY!

24 Oct 2016

We finished the Rain Water Catchment (Plan “B”) project in Butenga! It took about a week and a half to get the material to the site, but only three days to complete the work. Planning and scheduling can be quite difficult in the field. The town, Luweero, that we go to for most of the … More Rain, rain, please STAY!

Plan “B”

17 Oct 2016

Remember how we were slowly chipping away at the rocks in Butenga? Our daily routine looked like this: Drill, get stuck on a rock, hand-dig out the rocks, shovel them into a bucket to be dumped outside of the pit. Find softer soil, drop the drill into the pit (thinking that perhaps we had passed … More Plan “B”