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On November 3rd, the SoWaDi team and the rest of the Darmstadt regional group of Engineers without Borders traveled to the St. Michael Guest House located in Mossautal, a small village situated in the Odenwald. Regional Group Weekend – Along with the opportunity to play games and having fun getting to know one another better, the… Continue reading Testing the pipe bending device

On the 5th of May Tim and Elli held a presentation at the F3 (Wackerfabrik, Darmstadt) inform about the SoWaDi trip to Tanzania this January and to raise awareness for development cooperation. They showed lots of photos and videos from the work in Tanzania and outlined the SoWaDi project. Afterwards there was a lively discussion… Continue reading Presentation in the Wackerfabrik, Darmstadt

Four weeks after our return to Germany we are currently busy with the evaluation of the project phase. All the data we collected is now being analyzed and classified, so that we can come to our final conclusions by the middle of April.The next step for us is to identify and incorporate all the changes… Continue reading Evaluation process

Even after Elli’s departure there was a lot to do. First, there were some things where we had to fix and improve the devices, we attached transparent tubes to the containers to make it easy to read the current water level. We also continued to conduct microbiological tests and measured the amount of treated water… Continue reading Saying farewell to Malage VTC

The second SoWaDi device was built this week by a second group of students. We were able to use our experience from the first construction and the students were able to take a look at the first device. Because of this and the fact that we were able to reuse the self made tools for… Continue reading Second device, water tests and inauguration

After the group of four students and one teacher of the Malage VTC finished constructing the first device on friday, we were able to put it to use on saturday. The input tank was filled with water from a cistern and the device correctly positioned so that it faces the sun. We were very happy,… Continue reading Commissioning – SoWaDi works

On monday the 16th of January the construction of the first SoWaDi device and thus the test of the construction manual we worked on for the last two years started. Our project partner Gasiano Senzighe allocated four students and one teacher to our project, which should now be able to build a SoWaDi device using… Continue reading Construction

After our arrival at the Malage VTC we directly began with buying the material needed to build two SoWaDi devices. Because Elli was sick and had to stay home, Tim, Ludwig and Gasiano drove to Mwanga which is approximately 20 minutes from the VTC. We first started to get an overview and bought some material… Continue reading Buying the material

On January 11th Ludwig arrived at Usa River. On the same day Eliet Senkoro took us to Kisangara and dropped us off at the Malage Vocational Training Centre. We were warmly welcomed by Gasiano Senzighe and his family. Gasiano Senzighe is the principal of the school, for the next weeks we will live with his… Continue reading Arriving at the Malage Vocational Training Center

During the last few days we met with different local NGOs to discuss the SoWaDi System. At Arusha we had a meeting with professor Nuhu Hatibu, who is the leader of a NGO called Kilimo Trust. We gave him a presentation of our device, its functioning system and the procedure of the project phase. As… Continue reading Meeting local NGOs