Day4-Saturday
SiteVisit-2017
Day 4 - 23rd September
To Nkokoto. Walked to the village to see the market where some of the ladies who had borrowed from the microfinance scheme were selling their wares – mainly fruit and vegetables but also one stall was selling baby things. Visited the original borehole, busy place and delivering good clean fresh water. Then visited the clinic and was shown the interior although no clinician was in residence. The nurse was in charge. We were then taken to her house to be shown its appalling condition in which she was meant to live. It needs complete refurbishment to remove the ants that have eaten so much of it away. I asked for costings which I was handed later and this is a project the Link might wish to consider.
I asked to see
someone who had been given a sewing machine at the end of their FDC
course. When we reached the house she was ill so couldn’t admit us
(!!??) We walked to the foundations of the new teacher’s house which we
will be asked to part finance its completion, then after a visit to the
quarry where kokoto (stone) was extracted to build the railway during
the German occupation in the early 1900s, we attended the village
meeting. After the usual pleasantries and introductions, the villagers
listed their requests:
1. - Extend the electricity supply to all parts of the village;
2. - Build water tower and pipes to feed water to centre of village;
3. - Houses for teachers;
4. - More help for women in setting up their businesses,
i.e. continue with microfinance scheme;
5. - A car – for taking patients to hospital;
6. - Build a brick market for the women to trade and sell their
goods in;
7. - A dam to stop the water running away in the rainy season;
8. - Another two boreholes
9. - Recreational facilities, e.g. footballs, volley ball, etc., for the young to play in their free time;
10 - More microfinance for graduates from the FDC to set up their own businesses;
(I am not making comments about each request in this paper but I think it will be clear which requests are possible projects for the future and which ones are out of the question)
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