Senegal and back, small harvest

The small result from my visit to Senegal: only four days working in the village Keur Mousse, one week hospitalized in Dakar, two weeks recovery, now back in track in the Demotech workshop. Some impressions are noted here.

During a four days visit to the village Keur Mousse, Ives Fayes showed me the location of his garden project. In one of the neighbouring gardens a well in construction had reached the groundwater level at 35 meters depth. For the last time, boys with a donkey cart fllled the water tank in Ives' garden from which the small fruit trees have been watered up to now. Further irrigation will come from the well.
I met the team of well diggers, that arrived to continue work on Ives well, starting at 17 meters depth. In the mean time they dug it out to groundwater level. They will continue with the construction of concrete rings that they will sink into the water bearing layers.
Ives took me to a carpenter, enthousiastic to assist in constructing the pulley and its support over the well. Ideas developed to make a platform as a well cover. On it a person could stand to pull down the rope, running over the pulley. At each end of the rope a rubber bag is attached. The rubber bag, connected to the part of the rope, lowered into the water down in the well will fill up, while the rubber bag having reached the platform is being emptied into a container placed on the platform. From this higher position of the container, water could run through a hose to plant beds and trees to be watered.
I promised Ives to make a scale model of this setup, that he could send to Keur Mousse, to inspire the carpenter and others that now continue work on Ives' garden project.

Sadly nothing came of the plan to instruct people from Oumar's school how to make the NightReader. However bad I felt because of lost time and opportunities and because of my sick body, it felt so good to receive continues kind support from Ives, his family and his friends. Certainly I owe them an effective continuation of support for their projects.