We closed school last Saturday which means that I will not be in class teaching Biology until 7th January.I will however be more regular on the net deatailing the progress of the various projects at Hopewell this ending year.
I will be talking to my President at the club during tomorrow’s fellowship about the progress of the water treatment plant. The contractor ,Unique Joiners,who was finalising another project at the neighboring Kigonor school here in Barut completed his works there and I asked them to start immediately at Hopewell . I am from school now and have left them marking out the 25-metre trench for piping.Their plan entails pumping water to the highest point of the school, 25 metres from the borehole into the 10,000 litre tank that will be atop the 3m steel tower.From this tower,water will then flow back to our present concrete tower where the filtration system will be installed before clean potable water reaches the water kiosk. By building the tower at that point,they will have gained an addiotnal head pressure of 3m creating a total head of 5m which is adequate to pump water with adequate pressure to all points of the school, including future developments. As I told you earlier, I am free now and will be down there daily following the project’s progress.
I will also be overseeing the start of phase 2 of the library project….roofing. Mary wrote me yesterday and said the fundraiser which you and Pat attended raised $5,500 for the roof which she will be sending Nelly tomorrow.The coloured roofing sheets have gone up to Kshs.310/= per metre from 280/= when WTW did the classrooms,and the combined total of timber, iron sheets, ridges and the the other roofing acessories plus labour brings the cost to Kshs.356,000/=.So what is available should complete this massive school-cum community library.I would be most glad if you got Mrs. Eunice Nyukuri,our teacher/librarian in touch with Nancy at the Fontana library I visited for the most needed advice in managing this library.
Nelly is starting to check out suitable accomodations for you and Pat for March.I will be working on a tentative itinerary for this visit which is eagerly awaited at Hopewell.And the timing seems perfect since it will be around the start of Sanitary Towels’ Project Phase II.
More later. Be mightily blessed and warmest regards to mum Pat.
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