Day 1 continued: Our first Briefing

20:30 Local Time – Briefing for our visit to Haboombe village

We’ve just had a quick briefing from WaterAid to prepare us for our visit to Haboombe village in the Monze district which is a pre-intervention community with no clean water or sanitation. WaterAid will be commencing work within Haboombe in April 2012 so it will be interesting to see a community that has not yet benefited from an intervention. We’ll be spending the day with a local family so WaterAid gave us tips on the type of questions to ask in order to capture case studies we can use upon our return to the UK. They also gave us a few useful terms to use as the village is not English speaking. They have a local dialect called Tonga so we will be provided with translators in order to interview the family throughout the day. We’ll also be undertaking household activities with the family such as collecting water and helping them prepare meals so I’m looking forward to getting involved. 

We’ll be leaving at 4:30am as the village is very remote so it’s a bumpy 3 hour drive through the hills. On that note I’m off to bed to get my beauty sleep as I’ve now been up for over 36 hours!!