My assignment upon joining the Peace Corps was as a Water & Sanitation Engineering Volunteer. That didn't end up fitting my actual job description here very well but am hopeful that opportunities to use my expertise will present themselves.During Phase 2 training, which is mostly integration into the village community, I took the time to observe the water situation in the village. We have one broken bore hole in town center and one broken bore hole about a kilometer from town, with a 200 ft elevation drop. The closest operable bore hole is a 2-3 kilometer walk with a 200 ft drop in elevation. For families that do not have rain water capture tanks this is their primary and safest source of water.
Below is a rainwater capture tank in between a few homes.
A concrete rainwater capture tank.
Children do almost all of the water collection in my village when school is not in session.
Children strapping jerrycans to bicycles and preparing to take them up the 200 ft incline and 3 kilometer hike back to the village. They can earn 200 shillings per jerrycan doing this, slightly less than 10 cents.
A broken bore hole.
Another broken bore hole!
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