PPDS Dolma Foundation Charity Project Completed
Our “Fab Four” have completed the charity water supply project and the village of Changam Basti now has clean water for all its 60 inhabitants. Huge congratulations to them and all the team from Dolma and the villagers of Changam Basti who worked with them and supported them. We at the WCP and CIPHE back here in the UK salute them.
Our four volunteers, Ruben Duggan, Ollie Salmon, Daisy Turner and Ethan Wynn arrived in Nepal 2 weeks ago and after travelling up from Kathmandu spent 10 days on the mountainside and in the village constructing and laying the water supply.
The supply came from a waterfall up the mountainside at an altitude of 2,300m above sea level from which the water was fed into a filtration tank. A pipe, which had to be dug into the mountainside and run under a road, then fed the water down to the main 5,000 litre storage tank from which the water was fed and distributed to the village. This involved laying approximately 1,300m of pipe. All of this equipment, plus the construction materials and tools had to be carried up by hand; no mean undertaking. Clicking on each of the next three pictures will take you to three videos showing the hand-over.
Some more pictures below give a flavour of the work entailed in completing this project and the terrain and local environment.
Our four volunteers will return to Kathmandu, where a very special event awaits them; more details to follow! Then after a couple of days sightseeing they fly back home. We look forward to hearing all about their adventure first hand.