Friday 20 May 2011

Friday 20 May 2011

Started off with showers that kept the damp clothes from drying but the sun will come out later.  I was up around 6 am and got the coffee brewing and did my morning reading.  It is never tiring to hear the children sing their songs early in the morning.  Sometimes they sing in English and other time they sing in their native language.

Today the crew is going to go to Tumatuma Hospital where Nancy will continue the work on acquiring a dialysis system for the hospital.  While she is doing that Jim and Lee will check on the operation of the water systems at both the hospital and the deaf school.  The systems were installed in 2008 by FPC Tuscaloosa and they have been really used.  The system at the school had used some 38000 liters of water while the hospital used 11000 liters. This is great news.

While the rest of the team was gone I worked with Don to get the system at Tumaini fully operational.  There was nothing wrong with the system except it had not been used enough.  We shocked the system then ran the flush cycle to remove the bleach (chlorine) residue.  The system is ready.

Eunice and Jane from Oklahoma along with David from Juja Township Parrish came to look at the system and we had a great meeting and demonstration of the system at Tumaini.  Eunice and Jane are working with David at the Juja facility but wanted to see the system operate.  Eunice had also wanted to look at the feasibility of operating the systems on solar.  We will meet with Eunice, Jane and the committee from Juja on Monday.

Had a great meal and Nancy and I went by the Imani Hall and listened to the children sing for a while before turning in for the night.  The children are very talented and so kind to each other.

More Later