MY #COP22 ENDED WITH NEW HOPE TO BABAYERS COMMUNITY IN DODOMA, TANZANIA.

Early last month I wrote blog about My COP22 in Babayu Village, Dodoma, it was the time COP22 was about to start in Marrakech Morocco. I decided to miss Marrakech for good reason that I wanted to leave remarkable footprint to lives of people in Babayu for the memory of COP22 and Nov 19.

As seen on picture, water from Dundo Spring

I devoted my attention, time and power to peoples of Babayu where access to safe and clean water was a daytime dream, the dream that I and my gifted colleagues we agreed to make it true in November 2016. The village was established in 1970 and in 1973 was the last year for Babayers to get safe and clean water from tapes, since then they have been fetching their colored water from springs particularly one known as ‘Dundo’.

Empty buckets at Dundo Spring

 After drilling deep borehole which gave us a greenlight towards our intentions to change lives of Babayers, this time we built tanks base and solar panel stand. After that installation works started by installing water pump to drilled borehole and testing it. I do recall the happiness and smiles on peoples face of all ages after testing water pump and they saw safe and clean water from their home soil and rocks.

Pump testing

Within a three to five minutes’ empty buckets were full around the mouth of class c pipe from borehole but incredibly to them just ten minutes later all empty buckets and containers were full of colorless water from their own underground water.

Being sure that pump is working well, installation of two 10000 liters’ tanks followed, as well as 2300 Watts Solar panels and plumbing work continued. At the same time men and women were working on preparing pipe line to selected water point stations near community households and cattle watering point.

During final solar installation by our clean energy technicians

Complete installed tanks and solar panels

Night view of tanks and solar site

One with baseball cap is Rose Chimilila who is part of project team

One of completed water point at Wekense, a subvillage in Babayu Village

It is an exciting moment when you see community members look at your team and they smile, a smile with hope and future of success.

Many thanks to our supporter, UNDP Tanzania, My Gifted Team - Sudi Mohamed, Salmin Athuman, Rose Chimilila and Abdallah Mikulu. Our Technicians, I also thank Babayu Chancellor, Babayu Village Government, Babayu Primary School Staff and Students, Men and Women of Babayu Village.

The next steps of our project are education and practices on resilient farming by establishing demonstration farm in village which will be used as field class to all villagers.

For the Memory of #COP22 and Nov19.