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Fresh Clean Water arrives at the N'Giresi Secondary School The second phase of the project was to get water down to the secondary school. Again, our partner was the Rotary Club of Arusha Mount Meru. Unfortunately, this project experienced many problems. Firstly, we had been offered a grant from District1260 but due to a change in rules from Rotary International in that the receiving District was in a 'New Vision pilot scheme', we could not receive the grant so we raised all the funding ourselves. Secondly, the timescales slipped dramatically (heavy rains contributed to this) and there were very few progress reports. Thirdly, we were eventually told that there was some major dispute in the village as some of the pipework had been redirected to several homes rather than make its way to the secondary school. My view is that these villagers have been very foolish and selfish as no-one would want to give funds to their village in the future if it does not benefit those to who it is in intended, therefore all of the villagers will suffer as a result. (This is sad because we had hoped to form a long term alliance and had raised large funds sufficient for many major projects far into the future - but now it will not happen). With the help of Rotarian Faye Cran, who had a meeting with the Elders, the project was finally finished. After many requests, we finally received some photos of a water tower. Although they do not show the children with their new supply of water, we very much hope they are happy and will be more appreciative than their elders to work for the good of all in the village. This project was funded by three Rotary Clubs
in England – Hemel Hempstead, Exeter
Southernhay and Berkhampstead Bulbourne.
It was funded in October 2010, completed
in June 2012.
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