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| Raul helping measure the weekend's yield- note the full bucket!! |
Having treated ourselves to a day out off yesterday (Sunday), we were keen to get back to the atrapanieblas to make sure our buckets hadn't broken..Lima has been especially cloudy and drizzly for the last few days, so we were expecting a big yield today...and we weren't disappointed!!!
With Andy on bed rest from his case of Peru-tummy I ventured into the shanty town with Francisco, (Victor's twin brother) where I met Raul (Luis' little brother) who came with me up the hill and helped attach the piping and solved our 'broken' silicon gun machine...(which didn't work..because it wasn't open...rookie...)
Anyway- here's what we found!
SFC: 8.1 L
Box: 18 L
Excellent results!
For tonight, the silicon cemented pipe pieces have been left to dry under our plastic sheet (aka the body bag) and will be attached tomorrow..by then I hope to have found some gloves or a way of getting silicon cement off my hands...
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| Another foggy day on the hill of pain/plenty |
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| The canaleta- joining pieces and hoses...and the el cheapo knives we bought to do the job! |
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| Hoses silicon-ed through holes in the bucket lids |
Without anyone to escort me home again (even though I know where to go, a white girl with red hair on her own in the poorest part of Peru is not a good idea...) I decided to join in with a bunch of American volunteers from Colorado who had been put to work building stairs up a slope in Pamplona Alta. They gave me some of their snacks for lunch (all sorts of peanut butter flavoured biscuits and muesli bars!!) and I stood in line passing buckets of concrete up and down the slope to the locals at the top who poured it into the timber formwork. It was pretty hard work, but the Americanos love a sing- along so we karaoke-d our way through the entire Disney repertoire, Queen, Bon Jovi and of course, One Direction! Good fun, great group of kids!
The stairs are an excellent project for volunteers for 2 reasons:
1. They allow better access to houses and dramatically reduce the number of injuries for little kids
2. For Pamplona Alta to be considered a 'suburb' of Lima by the government (and hence benefit from govt. services) they need to have stairs and a safe way to access all the houses.
So building the steps is helping Pamplona Alta a lot! Every week there is a different group of volunteers helping build these steps, especially from America, England, Germany, Italy, and all co-ordinated by Victor and SEM.
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