By oilsofafrica
In February 2021 on a trip up north to the collection areas, we noted that the community solar water pump had been broken for three years and the Samburu women had to go for 2 hours to the nearest water hole to collect water. An extremely arduous journey in the intense heat.
We decided then to purchase spare parts and find a good technician and returned to the site and camped for 3 nights. Luckily nothing went wrong, the solar water pump was fixed and ureka! water gushed out of the taps. The community members were thrilled and since there were resident elephant in the area they decided to build a little dam for them to drink water. This would prevent the elephant entering the pump area and breaking the taps and destroying the solar pump again.