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
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