so today. back to the classroom--joshua D style. josh took some time to explain the basic concepts of hydraulic flow and a gravity flow water system to kevin and i. to spare you the technical details, we ended up making a drawing of the profile of the mountain from the source of the water all the way to bubukwanga, where we will be hoping to connect it to the water for the refugees.
oh, and if for some reason you stumbled upon this and havent been getting my email updates, im in africa, uganda to be specific, there are refugees here, and i am working with people who are helping to bring them water.
the look at the refugee site today was entirely different. the situation had moved away from desperation, and there were no longer lines of people waiting for water, hoping the tank did not run out before they got their jerry can underneath the flow. this time, water was, well, adequate. there was a small market that had been set up in the middle of the camp. new latrines were being dug. the goats still wandered, the ducks sat around, the kids were playing soccer. it has begun to look like a small town.
and odds are that's what it will become. of the 20,000 people who fled congo for safety, many will stay. they have left their lives behind to start fresh, and this is it.
a small village has been planted in africa.
what would make them stay? surely the cramped lifestyle of 20,000 people on maybe 5 acres cannot be ideal, can it? living in tents and depending on foreign agencies for food and water?
but if they are going to stay...
it makes me wonder what they left behind.
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