Water Project
The first Phase of the water project has been completed and clean drinking water
has been available to the community for several months now. The next phase is to
add an elevated water tank and solar/wind pump to enable wider distribution of
the water. Currently the orphans and their surviving parents walk long distances
to fetch the water, thereby denying them time to study, for the children, and to
engage in economic tasks, for the surviving parents.
07 July 2008
Because On behalf of
Nyamila Community Centre, Isaka Memorial Foundation has signed a
water drilling contract with Euro Water Services of Nairobi, Kenya. The
Secretary and Co-Founder of Isaka Memorial Foundation, USA, Dr. Mary Otieno,
took time from the YWCA International Conference she was attending in Nairobi,
to sign the documents on our behalf. The contract was prepared by our esteemed
attorney, Dr. Patrick Lumumba.
The Center Manager,
Charles Omondi has already obtained a Hydro-Geological Survey Report and a
water drilling permit from the government of Kenya. The survey report, compiled
by Siaya Watsan Development Group, suggests that we should hit the water
level within 100 Metres.
The drilling work starts on
Monday, 9th July 2007 and is expected to be completed within 2 weeks. I want to
thank Mr. John Ondewe, a water development consultant in Siaya and Mr.
James Ochieng, the NCC Asst. Treasurer and an employee of Standard Bank
Nairobi, for the splendid work they have done to get us to this pointof the lack
of room for expansion, we have relocated the centre from the original site to
the prime land in from of the late Mzee Isaka Achoki's (for whom the foundation
is named) home.
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