Malweil School buildings completed!

Malweil School does not need to hold classes under the trees any longer. Two buildings with eight classrooms and an office/resource room, were completed at the end of May 2010. After an opening ceremony, the students moved into their new classrooms. This is the first "Bricks for Filters" project to be completed by Pan Aweil Developments Inc., with financial support from Hanti Sidra One Global Family.

Panlang clinic update April 20, 2010

The Panlang Clinic, another project of Pan Aweil Developments, is officially open and operating very successfully. On March 17, 2010, we held a grand opening ceremony which was attended by hundreds of people who came from all over the surrounding area. The ceremony was attended by government officials including the State Minister of Health, County Commissioner, Members of Parliament, and other dignitaries. The ceremony was joyfully done by the community members who sang and danced all day long. The community chiefs and local MPs expressed their appreciation for the construction of the clinic which is the first of its kind in the area.

We have hired one doctor, three nurses and one security worker. The clinic is currently rendering services to six surrounding communities but people are also coming from farther away. The numbers are almost overwhelming, showing the great need for health care in the area. Now the clinic is being visited daily by 1,500 patients, including a very large number of children. They are coming from as far away as Aweil East County, some traveling for a day to get to the clinic. The small amount of medicine and medical supplies in the clinic, primarily from three medipacks provided by Health Partners International of Canada, is being depleted very quickly.

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Official Opening Ceremonies

at the Panlang Clinic

The clinic begins operation

Crowds of patients gather outside

Treatment of patients and dispensing of medicine

Bricks For Filters Update--April 20, 2010

The Bricks for Filters Project in Aweil West County is progressing very well. The Clean Water Company, operated by Pan Aweil Developments, has been able to manufacture and successfully install 163 biosand water filters into homes in three villages from its production facility in Panlang village. Our target is 200 filters.

The filters are sold to villagers who pay with bricks baked in local village kilns. The villagers have produced enough bricks to build eight classrooms and one teachers' office and storeroom at Malweil Primary School. Until now this school has held classes under the trees.

The Bricks for Filters committees in the community cooperated very well since the start of the project. They made and baked the bricks in addition to loading them at the kiln and unloading them at the school site where the construction is currently ongoing. The community also helped in digging the foundation of the school free of charge. We only paid them food for work for a job that would have cost substantial amounts of money. This was basically because the community is eager to see this school built to completion. The construction of the school has already started and the walls are expected to be completed by late April, 2010. We expect to have the roofing completed by the end of April if everything goes according to plan.

We have also installed a drilled well and hand pump near to the school site.

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Biosand water filters:

from manufacture to clean water in homes

Malweil Primary School construction site

Planning and designing

Digging the foundations

Delivering the bricks

Tea break five minutes

Laying the bricks

The walls go up and up

The school well is drilled