by aubra | Aug 17, 2023 | Malawi
POSTS Nkagula Drill Site Today we woke up bright and early for a 7am start time at the Nkagula drill site. Kapitapa pulled out the 50m of drill rods and replaced them with casing. We determined the placement of the slotted versus plain casing depending on...
by aubra | Aug 16, 2023 | Malawi
POSTS Liti Village Well Drilling The team began the day drilling the first well in Liti Village. The community had cleared some trees and flattened the area around the drilling location to allow the drilling rig access to the site. Unfortunately after drilling to 45...
by aubra | Aug 15, 2023 | Malawi
POSTS Well Inspection and Borehole Committee Meeting Moni! Today, the team visited Mphero, the site of our first wells drilled in 2016, to inspect a malfunctioning well that the community mentioned to us during our last meeting. We stopped at VIP’s field office to...
by aubra | Aug 12, 2023 | Malawi
POSTS Khanda Health Clinic and Water Testing Today, we started our day visiting the new Khanda Health Clinic that VIP recently opened. The facility services over 8000 people and when fully staffed, will employ 69 people. There was a different room for each department...
by aubra | Aug 11, 2023 | Malawi
POSTS Drilling Plan and Community Surveys Today was our second day in the communities. We started off the day meeting with our driller. With VIP, we discussed the timeline for the drilling of the two boreholes, completing resistivity testing, and confirmed the...
