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the people speakes gitonga here, neighbour meens…

level 4: no tap

status: done,but the pump

source friend: all

depth: 18m

1. May 2025

After the fixation of vilantuna, it boils a stone's throw away, people are a little drunk and scream at each other. One who has to endure everything is Papatingi, he is my neighbor and finances the pump and the tank of the source vilantuna.

However, the wise proud hardly care that the much younger troublemaker runs at great speed to him, he stops like a rock in the surf and I feel that he defends not only himself, but also me...

I didn't quite understand the situation until they talked about the water...

Two faucets are installed on the surface of our other project. They are fed from the first source we realized.

A fresh and a tank tap.

Well, Toni's family asked me a few weeks ago if I wanted to sell the water to my neighbors who don't belong to Tony's family.

I said no in amazement that this was even an option. And say, the water is free for everyone, not just for the family...

Old man, the agile man, thinks it's not good when so many people on the floor come in and out, now that we have so many tools on the floor...

For that moment I accepted that, but now it's different again...

Because, there are always discussions in the distance that we should lay lines from our tanks to the neighbors...

Well, that sounds good, but where exactly is the boundary?

Since we already decided last Sunday to lay a line to the sidewalk to provide a small source, I decide to hand this job over to „loud grass“ right away, he talks to me continuously, while I write this here...

He wants to postpone the start of work like so many here to tomorrow and I only say that there are others who can do that and if he wants water, he just has to do something for it...

Later, during in-depth conversations with the carpenter, „loud grass“ comes back and disturbs, I ask if he doesn’t like his job, he goes after his things...

And ten minutes later, he voluntarily began to unload the pick-up loaded with roof grass. When he asked for money, he was almost sober again...

I’m sorry about the sura, the coconut beer. I donated 15l and now there’s this mood, even mine is clouded, not only because I didn’t get a single sip of it.

I’m really looking forward to tomorrow...

2. May 2025

The ditch to the well outside our area is created. The only thing missing is the unisation, material is also there... We will probably do it next week.

Sunday 4. May 2025:

Toni, call me and inform me that our pump has been stolen…

Actually, I wanted to have this information set for the time being and I wanted to sleep over it for a night. But other circumstances wanted it so that there is a plastic in this place, which we need in another place to close a roof. And since it’s just raining a lot at the moment, I can’t get around it with my new, freshly imported one from the transport Mitsubishi Pajero IO to drive to the square to get this plastic. And since Victor, my girlfriend’s brother, has never driven my car before, I’m with him. On the way, I described to him what was in the making of this „new“ place. I also described that yesterday the heart of the plant the water pump was stolen. Arrived on site, it probably took about 3 minutes until 25 people stood around us and wanted to know what happens next with the pump. I don’t necessarily understand much of the local language. But Victor kept telling me how upset people are because they have to carry the water much further again. To all the questions what, how and where, I always had only the answer that the situation is not clarified by me. I will not buy another pump. I won’t find out who wedged the pump but I’m sure you can find out. After about half an hour, the decision was made in the community that they go to a Sangoma a local doctor yes, they say doctor, because it is such a kind of fortune teller. Victor then explains to me on the way home that in Africa it is so that people go the family to this Sangoma and he then does not even want money, because he then goes to the robber, that thieves takes well with him and then collects the punishment directly from the robber…

5. May 2025 at 15:05

I receive the phone call that the tap for the public is now finished. So as soon as we have the pump again and can fill the tank accordingly, this source will supply water again

7. May 2025 at 21:55:

After my girlfriend and I exchanged a lot of clarifying and also profound conversations and feelings today, I get the radio that something will happen with this pump tomorrow

7. May 2025

They say they would steal the faucet if we mounted it...

9. May 2025 at 21:21:

Today I can say that yesterday definitely nothing happened at this place. Since I saw Toni in the supermarket today and asked him about the status he replied that the Sangoma would like to come over to say who stole the pump…