Part 1
Kalagala High School
Many years ago I traveled to Africa for the first time. Uganda.
Over the years, people have asked me about the two water projects in Tanzania, and, through emails and blog posts, I’ve shared bits and pieces of an incomplete story, but I wanted to collect the whole thing—from the beginning.
Not just for you, but for me—to help understand how I got there—wherever there is. And now that I’ve pieced together my story, I’m not sure what it all means, but maybe that’s the point. Maybe our stories are never finished. You are welcome to DOWNLOAD AN EBOOK. If you want to have a print version you can pay for the printing costs through Blurb
Part 1
Many years ago I traveled to Africa for the first time. Uganda.
Part 2
In the fall of 2007, Zoe went back to Queen Victoria School on Vancouver's east side. Her teacher, Perry Buchan, heard bits and pieces about our trip from her seven-year-old perspective, which inspired him to integrate a section on water into the school's curriculum.
Part 3
So it feels like this story should end here, right? Wrong. My experiences in Cheku invigorated me to do more and we conjured up a plan to transition Moshi's cultural tours into a full-on safari company, fully integrating the environmental projects in the process.
Part 4
Today, in a tiny little village in Tanzania—one that isn't even on the map—there is a 170-meter-deep hole in the Earth that supplies water, using solar technology, to seven distribution points around the village of Iyoli. This is the story of how that happened.
Part 5
The Iyoli water project, the second well, had taken two years so far, and we were just now getting ready to start drilling. That's a lot of time waiting for something to happen, but it had been a similar experience in Cheku, too.
Chapter 28: Two and a Half Minutes
Chapter 29: Fade-In to a Movie
Chapter 30: Inch-by-Inch
Chapter 31: Our Hotel Family
Chapter 32: The Tower
Chapter 33: Infrastructure
Chapter 34: Juma
Chapter 35: My Worst Fear
Chapter 36: The Team
Chapter 37: The Big Picture
Chapter 38: Tomoke
Chapter 39: The Crane
Chapter 40: The Changing Season
Chapter 41: Breaking the Fast
Chapter 42: Onward
Chapter 43: The Water Flows
Chapter 44: This is my Story
Epilogue
