The Final Installment

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October 27th 2008

Published: October 27th 2008

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Pete and Jo

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cows lapping up the windpump water

Hello,

Well after our success at Sakutiek on Monday 13th we were excited about the hand over ceremony and Endonyo Narasha on the Tuesday. After arranging with our driver from Nairobi to pick us up at 8.30am we were getting pretty anxious when he still hadn’t shown up by 10am. It turns out he had run away back to Nairobi without telling us, dumped the car, gone missing and subsequently ended up in jail! All a bit dramatic for our final day in Narok.

Pete and I managed to hire our trusty friend’s taxi again and drove ourselves to the site. We arrived to see hundreds of cows being herded towards the trough to drink the water from the windpump! The trough and tank were both functioning better than expected with very few renovations needed in the future. World Concern and the community will work together to improve the existing tank and trough and work towards an additional new trough. Councillors, chiefs and World Concern then turned up for the meeting. Four hours later we were still in the cramped church listening to Maasai speeches reverberating off the corrugated walls without a clue of how much longer it was

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Maasai lady loving the windpump

going to go on for! Unfortunately we had to leave early, in a whirlwind of dust, before the feast to finish up our business in Narok and get back to Nairobi before midnight.

Our last day in Kenya we met up with Faridah who has set up a beauty school for young people trying to escape the difficulties of the neighbouring slum. We were able to contribute to the cause by purchasing some clippers so that the tutor can cut hair and use that income to help sustain the school. We also provided 2 dummies for the students to practise on and arranged for the power to be reconnected.

Our final day was cram packed with meetings and seemed to fly by without time to do everything we had wanted, but it all ended on a high note. Pete and I are now back in the UK safe and sound and gradually slipping back into the English way of life trying to keep the memory of our Dig Deep times fresh in our minds even though it feels a million years away.

If you know anyone who may be interested in a shorter, simpler project (not necessarily

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cows and their maasai minder

water related) that we have in mind then please do get in touch with us. We will be updating our website over the next month so keep an eye out!

We want to say a huge thank you for all the support of our friends and family and especially to our treasurer Eva who inspired and believed in us from the very beginning.

So, with two Dig Deep projects and a lot of work later we'll goodbye for now!!

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