Remote village in Kenya grows with Rotary support

Posted by Peter Roaf on Aug 24, 2016
 
The 7,000 people living in and around the remote village of Ndandini, Kenya now enjoy direct access to 19,000 liters per hour of fresh, clean water -- in place of dirty, unhealthy water, in the past hauled over great distance and at considerable cost of time. Drilling down 300 feet or more and erecting water storage tanks have brought the village into a new era.
 

The village now provides as well a greenhouse and community garden, solar power for its elementary and secondary schools, 1,300 solar powered individual lights for studying and household tasks, the first computer and internet access -- now secondary school computer labs with 21 computers and a satellite link -- and a tractor with water delivery trailer.

All that has been possible since 2007 thanks to the vision and leadership of Terry Umbach and his wife, as members of the Rotary Club of Sunshine Coast-Sechelt Rotary Club, in our home District 5040, individual donors, 25 Rotary clubs and The Rotary Foundation, having invested to date $380,000.

For more information: www.ndandini.blogspot.com

Individual solar lights charge up during the day Students display their solar powered lights which help them with their studies
A greenhouse benefits from the new water supply A water drip irrigation system now possible supports a garden of vegetables for the village
The first computer, with internet access, comes to the village A computer lab of 21 computers for each high school
Terry Umbach, with his wife, both members of the Rotary Club of Sunshine Coast - Sechelt, spoke to the Ladner club about their nine years of developing this Kenyan village project
 Solar power panels are added to the roof of a school