Breakfast is usually included in the room price and is tea (or coffee), eggs (fried, boiled, scrambled, or boiled), chips (French fries), sausage, corn flakes.
Then to the truck…checking fluids and tires, loading pipes, pumps and other well pieces…off to a shop to buy lunch supplies (water, peanut butter, bread, crisps (potato chips), biscuits (cookies), and cokes.
Then to the field, stopping to pick up an installation supervisor, builder, trainee (any combo of those or all) and to the first well. It can be an hour or more drive to the first well. We arrive in the village, get together the parts needed and head to the well site. We volunteers are busy inputting info into the android, greeting the people, dancing, singing, trying to be helpful putting the well together (I jump in sometimes and get politely subbed out often).
When the well is installed we start the dedication (sometimes we start the dedication as they are finishing the installation). Pray, dedicate, demonstrate correct usage, take a picture and celebrate whether with a splash party and/or more dancing and singing. Accept gifts-chicken, ground nuts, tomatoes, greens, maize.
Into the truck and off to the next well. Repeat 7-10 times with a short break for lunch and then return to the hotel for dinner, shower and sleep!
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