JIm, Kofi, & I met with the Awisa Water Board - a group of about 10 people from the local presbyterian church and boys school.
The Water Board has some good questions around obtaining more 5 gallon bottles, how to provide water to those in their community that are really in need, and how they could sell some of the water to help offset the costs of the system's operation.
The Awisa system is based on catching rain water. So for about 3 months out of the year the cisterns run dry because of lack of rain. The Water Board is considering a bore hole to either be an additional source for their LWW system OR have an additional water supply for non-drinking applications, i.e. washing clothes, bathing, etc.
Awisa is probably one of Idlewild's best examples of of how a system should function to support the needs for drinking water related to the boy's school and church. Idlewild is at the end of it's 3 year covenant with the Awisa Water Board. Going forward Idlewild will certainly be interested in how Awisa is doing and is available to help - the benefits of the system are now up to the Water Board and the Living Waters Ghana network to sustain the system.
JIm was telling me that before the system was installed AND the health & hygiene training performed that the boys school did not have a place in the school for the boys to wash their hands - now the school has a wash basin just for washing hands.
I asked the headmaster of the school has the number of illnesses related bad water have gone down since the system was installed and training performed.
Some pics from Awisa
Amazing! How we take for granted turning on a faucet, I will never complain about the low water pressure from using a well again! God Bless you all.
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