Water tank fixes...

This Saturday my school was lucky enough to have the Nuku'alofa  Rotary Club come to both the primary and secondary schools and fix 2 water tanks. The project was funded by a grant through the Australian High Comission.

Friday afternoon we had to dig a trench next to the secondary school water tank ( sima vai) in order to put piping in as drainage for the rain water into the sima. We dug until dark and had to finish the rest in the morning.

Bright and early saturday morning Robert the engineer from Rotary and 2 contractors drove up to our school ready to work.

We unloaded supplies and got to work.

While Robert and some community members worked on getting the piping installed for the secondary school tank, the contractor got to work patching up the hole in the primary school tank.

They even installed a brand new spicket!

Once they got the piping in, they started working on getting the gutters up.

We had helpers of all ages!

They installed the piping to the tank!

We filled in the trench.

Osi! This whole new drainage system will hopefully be more effective when collecting rainwater, now we just need lots of rain to fill our newly fixed tanks!

On another note my neighbors pigs just had babies and they are the cutest little things, even if they do eat my vegetables and flowers!