Hope everyone had a nice 4th. Not much going on around here except for one very exciting service update:
Back in February of 2013 Abby and I posted this, after our village's water pump broke:
And finally, 45 kids and teachers, 1 bathroom, no running water. You do the math.
Well, after nearly two years Abby and I have learned that the math of not having flushing toiles equals incredibly stinky and terribly unsanitary conditions. So we set about to change it. Putting that MPA to work I reached out to all the High Commissions (a.k.a. Embassies) operating in Tonga and after countless grant proposals, tons of meetings and lots of help from our PTA, we can finally announce that this month Tu'anuku GPS will finally have flushing toilets. This is all courtesy of the people of New Zealand, whose High Commissioner (a.k.a. Ambassador) emailed me last week to tell us the good news.
Starting soon we will begin construction on a state-of-the-art water tank that will collect rain water and be connected to a hand pump to funnel it to the toilets and a sink for hand washing. We really hope this makes life at school and in the village better for everyone and are very excited about it.
That's it for now. Have a great weekend.
congratulations you two! no on i know more qualified to handle so much poo. real proud of you.
ReplyDeleteThis kind of sounds like dealing with the restrooms after a weekend at Sigma Chi! I can only imagine having to deal with this every day for years! You guys are something else!
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