Second handpump being installed right next to the clinic
Installing the second handpump of 2009
Drilling machine digging well for the second handpump
Beginning of putting the pump mechanism in position to work
Bowl hole almost almost ready
Installing the pump
Pump installed
Putting the pump together
Pump materials
Paramount Chiefs of Panlang and Marialbai talking with the well engineer
Assembling the pump
Pump installatin complete
Laying bricks around the pump for the cement base
William Kolong etching the acknowlegements for those who contributed to the 2009 handpump project
"SUPPORTED AND FUNDED BY OUR CANADIAN FRIENDS" - FEBRUARY 25, 2009
Etching done
Well complete
Child of Panlang pumping the first water from the newly installed pump
Lining up jugs to be filled at the pump
Filling the first jeri can being filled at the 2009 pump
The first handpump we installed in 2008, being used constantly by the people of village of Panlang, Marialbai
First handpump from 2008 busy in use
Private Jet Rented by Governor of NBG State at Juba International Airport
UN flight from Aweil International Airport going to Juba
Aweil International Airport
The White Nile River
My sister Awut and cousins in Panlang Village
Welcoming Ceremony in Marialbai (Greater Aweil, NBG State)
Welcoming Ceremony
Traditional Welcoming Dance
Oven for baking bread
Valentino Achak and Dennis Schroeder enjoying the meal in Marialbai
Panlang village housing
William Kolong and Valentino Achak at Valentino Achak's house in Panlang, Marialbai
William Kolong and Valentino Achak in Panlang village, Marialbai
Children relaxing at home in Panlang village
William Kolong checking on an ill child in Panlang village
Tradional Dinka House in Panlang village, Marialbai
Marialbai Primary School
A babysitter with a child in Panlang, Marialbai
Orphans taking care of themselves in Panlang, Marialbai
Orphans trying to make leaving
A relative of William Kolong with his children
Relatives of William Kolong in Panlang, Marialbai
Anglican Church in Panlang village, Marialbai
Relatives of Willaim Kolong in Marialbai
William Kolong with orphans of Panlang village during Ground-Breaking Ceremony for the Clinic and installation of the second Well.
Architect and Dennis Schroeder at Ground-Breaking for the clinic in Panlang village, Marialbai
Surveying the plot of land for building the clinic
Surveying the grounds for the clinic
The corner of where the clinic would go
Measuring the site for building
William Kolong getting in on some digging action
Marking the perameters with white sand
Measuring and marking parameters for the building
Digging action (literally breaking the ground)
Dennis checking out the plot
Village volunteer digging at the excavation site for the clinic
The beginning of excavating the site
William Kolong shoveling up mud for the bricks
Shoveling mud - used for mortar between the bricks
William Kolong and village volunteers shoveling and carrying mud to the construction site from a nearby mud hole
Delivery truck with the bricks
Local brick production factory
Step 2
Step 3
Ready to go
Very ready to go
Laying the bricks for the foundation of the clinic (Step 1!)
Second step of laying the bricks with drilling machine in backgound digging well for new handpump beside the clinic
Third step
Fourth step
Fifth step
village volunteers talking at the site
Sixth step
Seventh step
Eighth step
Ninth step
Laying the bricks
Measuring and checking the level of the wall
William Kolong and engineers working hard
Men on the job
Tenth step
Walls almost complete
First Sage of the construction of the clinic complete
Outside of the clinic wall with sticks leaning agains drums for scaffolding
The beginning of plastering over the brick walls with cement
William Kolong helping with the plastering
Village volunteer watering down the cement to make it harden properly
Denis Schroder with village children outside the clinic building
Getting ready for Ground-Breaking
Dennis Schroeder with children at the contruction site of the clinic
Valentino Achak with his nephew in Panlang, Marialbai
William Kolong At friend house in Aweil town
