Haiti Mission at work in Uganda
DECEMBER 2009
Dear Deacon Lloyd,
Greetings from Uganda. I am presenting to you a brief report on the two
wells. There is some technical details such as the static level and the
grid that I do not know.
REPORT
Water being the need of the people in Malaba where I was working as
their priest until the June 2006 when I was transferred. As a priest in
Malaba I was never resident. I was commuting every day from the nearby
parish because there was no parihs house.Two places were identified that
were badly in need of clean and safe water. The first place was in
Malaba, Akolodongo Village where eventually the primary school and
parish house came to be erected in 2005. With the availability of clean
and safe water in the village, it is interesting to not that many
families have come to settle around the well
The parish community, the school children and the surrounding community
have access to the borehole serving approximately 1,500 people and
sometimes the people struggle for the water.
The borehole many times is over strained because of the many people
using it. The help that you sent us was indeed very timely. It enabled
us to service the well. I have received a report from the priest: Fr.
James Achara who is working there in Malaba that the borehole produces
enough and clean water and it might serve the community for sometime.
The bore hole is located in Malaba Town Council in Akolodongo village
near the border between Uganda and Kenya on the western side of the
country.
I am very grateful to the parish priest who is now a resident in the
place for taking keen interest to supervise the well so that its used
properly for the service of the entire community.
The second well on the other hand is located in one of the outstations
of St. Jude Catholic Church, Malaba in a place called Kadomoche village,
Mella Sub-County, Tororo District.
The well has been serving a population of approximately ,1000 people.
The pipes had rusted and the borehole itself was drying up. But with the
help you sent us, we have been able to make the well deeper to access
the water table. The pipes have been cleaned up also and installed. The
priest on the ground, a few day ago, called to inform me that the work
was finalized.
I wish you well and God's abundant blessings.
Fr. Thomas Aquinas