Rotary construction project nears milestone
Woy Woy Rotary Club's Buwampa Uganda Community Project will reach a new milestone with the imminent completion of a new school block and teachers' housing.
"Construction work at Buwampa is ongoing at a rapid pace despite a very rainy wet season," said project manager Ms Sue O'Neill.
"The community has continued work (voluntarily) on both the classroom block and teachers' houses so they will be ready for use during our medical outreach in June.
"The classroom block is at its final stages for completion.
"This will provide the school with four additional classrooms, each with storeroom area.
"The eight teachers' houses are at roofing stage," she said.
"We now have our two new bore water pumps installed and working as well.
"This is a huge development that provides fresh clean water to all.
"While Buwampa is on a peninsula surrounded by the fresh waters of Lake Victoria, it is a difficult trek to the water's edge and then a tough uphill walk back carrying heavy water containers.
"The water from the pump has the added advantage of not being contaminated from animal faeces and mud, which is common on the banks of the lake," Ms O'Neill said.
"We have a small group of four travelling from Australia for the medical outreach.
"We will join around 100 Ugandan volunteers who have put up their hand to participate with the outreach.
"The Ugandan group includes medical personal, Rotarians, security, translators, educators and the women from Pure Joy organising all the catering.
"We anticipate we will see 1500 to 2000 patients each day for three days.
"We hope we have put in place strategies to manage these substantial numbers.
"This year we will have clean, private consultation space as well as classrooms we can use for dental, pharmacy, lab, ultra sound, family planning, optometry and health education.
"Our club has contributed to the supply of medications for the outreach and for the Pure Joy ladies' participation," Ms O'Neill said.
SOURCE:
Newsletter, 28 Apr 2018
Sue O'Neill, Woy Woy Rotary