Saturday, November 12, 2016

ALL HANDS ON DECK AND HEAD TO BUILD PRECIOUS FACILITIES FOR TIMOR LESTE COMMUNITY

Women  carrying  concrete blocks  on   heads  for  the project .
Variety of  containers  to  be   filled.
Waste not want not-elderly lady catching leaking water .
Concreter  Jose   putting  finishing  touch  to  facility 
Making use of  new  washing  stand; tap from  yellow tank visible .
Constructed over three days at a small spring on  a hill site in Oecusse , the enclave surrounded by Indonesian  West Timor ,  the  three combined projects comprised: (1) drinking water for the community from one source at  5litres  a minute and now capable of filling 4 x 5litre  bottles a minute from a 1100 litre tank; (2) comprising ‘mandy' and wash table supplemented by a second smaller supply with a tap to keep the mandy full; and (3) all waste water and overflow from the tank at night captured on the cement slab and then via 500m of 1” pipe to two x 2000 litre  concrete in ground tanks in the garden.  The overflow from the water tank alone will be in excess 3000 litres a night plus waste water during the day from the washing chores.  

The first two components will service the 120 families in the community for domestic use, and the excess and waste will be used by the 24 families involved in the garden in this area.  The total cost of all material was $1200 or $10 per family.  
 
Photos  and details  from   Graeme Hockey , of  Darwin , who has made 11 trips to  Timor  Leste  in  recent  years  in  connection  with  various projects , one being a  bamboo long drop  toilet  he designed.  The so called mandy  in this series  of  photographs is  another  invention of  his - at another  village, where there  was  a  better supply of water ,  five   of  them  were  built  in  a  line .