Contractors have been appointed. Contracts have been signed. Construction work is Maganzo has begun.
There has been a lot of community interest in the project. There are many women who have told us having access to water will be life changing. The arrival of 10km of pipes on trucks also caused quite a stir in a quiet town. And then there are those who are very interested in the soil we dig out to make the trenches. Maganzo is only 6km from Mwadui diamond mine so every day there are quite a number of guys with sieves 'panning for diamonds'...no finds yet as far as we're aware!
As most things do in Tanzania, organising everything to get started on site took a while but pipes are finally being laid.
There has been a lot of community interest in the project. There are many women who have told us having access to water will be life changing. The arrival of 10km of pipes on trucks also caused quite a stir in a quiet town. And then there are those who are very interested in the soil we dig out to make the trenches. Maganzo is only 6km from Mwadui diamond mine so every day there are quite a number of guys with sieves 'panning for diamonds'...no finds yet as far as we're aware!
As with all construction project, there are plenty of problems and frustrations but it's exciting to finally see progress.
