Water Well Video

Here is one of the guys digging the well~he is singing and stops to 'grunt' in between words!

The New Water Well

Well, I must say, I am blown away by the way they do things around here! The labor is 'real labor'! And I must add, they always do it with a smile or a song. There are two guys, and they are not 'spring chickens', that are digging the new water well. This well will be dug by hand about 40 feet deep~1 hammer, 1 chisel, 1 broken off shovel, 1 bucket with a rope attached and 2 guys! They start when the sun comes up and quit when it goes down. It has also been raining every day since we got here so the road is so bad they have to walk here. They take turns working~one goes down the hole for an hour to hammer the rock away, the other will drop the bucket and pull it back up when filled. UNBELIEVABLE! I bought all the 'fundi's' , swahili for workers, a coca-cola and Heather made a whole bag of popcorn! WOW were the excited! They are always very appreciative. ALways trying to speak english with me & I am always doing my best to speak swahili. They get quite the laugh but also comment "Mama, you talk swahili good". I saw the first water well being dug but it still amazes me and Heather is totally speechless and just shakes her head. No one should ever complain about work~until you see these guys work!

Mama Linda