Long Day......

We have had a long day!

We began the day with a greetings meeting with the clerk of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rev Samuel Ayete-Nyampong at the PCG head office in Accra.  Samuel had the opportunity to attend LWW Clean Water U in the U.S. several years and is very much a supporter of what LWW and Idlewild are doing in Ghana.

From Accra we traveled “up the hill” to Akropong (there is a lot about Akropong in the 2017 blog).  We had a good visit with the headmaster of the school and water committee - albeit brief - it was good.  We aren’t really worried about getting a deeper debrief of the past year at Akropong - since several of the teachers that were trained last year are part of this year’s installation at Kwahu Praso.  George Appah, Regina and Rose are here as part of the Kwahu Praso IP team.

We did visit the water room at Akropong - it’s outstanding.  Meter reads that Akropong has produced over 63,000 gallons of pure water in the past year.  There are 20L bottles labeled by Hall (dorm) and floor, they now have 12+ dispensers, all the 5L bottles are in the hands of students and faculty AND there are a set of bottles labeled for the community.

The 102 instructors continue to train the students, have trained the faculty and are out in the community educating others on the health & education around pure water.

We left Akropong for the 2 hour drive to Kibi (brief stop to pick up some pineapples along the way).  We met with Rev Charles the interim (soon to be permanent) head master of the school.  Kibi has 1,300 students and another 600+ teachers that attend continuing education through out the year.  This system was installed in 2015 and we were there today for the 3rd follow up visit.

Things continue to go well at Kibi.  Kibi has a very strong water committee with very strong participants - like Prosper.  Prosper is all in the details of the production & maintenance of the water treatment system and the distribution of the water to the students, staff and community.  You could say Prosper has “drank the water”!

Kibi is also above 12 dispensers for the 20L bottle as they continue to added dispensers in the Halls, food hall, chapel, etc. areas.  The water room at Kibi has a clean factory feel - all the windows have covering, the operators built a vestibule to prevent dirty air from flowing into the room when someone enters from the outside, curtains on the inside, coats for the operators and so on.  Very impressive.

We took a late lunch at Kibi -  take out from Linda Dor...sorry folks couldn’t get the fish soup and a take out, so it was grilled chicken & rice.  After lunch - we departed for the 2 hour drive to Kwahu Praso.