Well Update!

Me with the new VSO Volunteer Ben and some of the school children from the village.

So this week I made it up to Pu Trom Cha School, where the community well is currently being dug, to check up on the progress and success! The well has been dug to a depth of 22m and it has just over a meter and a half of water at the bottom and with rainy season about to start, that level is soon to rise.

All that is left to do now is to build some kind of small wall around it to stop children/animals falling down it. Jack, at the Elephant Project, has offered to donate the bricks and concrete so that I can use the remaining money to buy a good water filter to be kept at the school so the children have access to safe water.

I am hoping the well can be finished next week and I have asked a fellow NGO worker here who is an agricultural adviser here on community gardens to come to the school and speak with the community about setting up a small vegetable garden in the school. This would then be a push off point for creating ‘breakfast clubs’ to provide a morning meal for the children which would keep them in school and help their performance in the classroom.

Charlotte