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½ Meter of Freeboard and Drake - January 2023 Trip Report

½ Meter of Freeboard and Drake 

Over winter break, myself, Cosima, Becca, Dave, and Jordan traveled to Naitolia to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of our pond rehabilitation project in the community. In Cosima’s previous post she talks about how we evaluated the implementation through household surveys, in this post I am going to talk about our surveys of the pond and the surrounding dirt. 

January 2023: Household Surveys in Naitolia, Tanzania

This January, Yale EWB made its final trip Naitolia, Tanzania. Our goal was to check in after Covid (which kept us away from the village for over three years) and to finalize the pond project. The travel group was small: just me, Matilda, Becca, Jordan and Dave. We were joined by an engineering student from Dar es Salaam, some TPP employees, and members of the village water committee. Over seven days, we collected and tested water samples, surveyed the pond, taught sanitation classes in school, and held meetings with locals. We also conducted lots and lots of household surveys!

Summer 2020 Project Update - Naitolia, Tanzania

During EWB-Yale’s visit to the village of Naitolia in August 2019, pond rehabilitation work was continued through further excavation of the pond so that its base fell 2.5 meters lower than its surrounding embankments. Additionally, a sediment trap (see first image below) was excavated in front of the pond to restrict sediment from entering the pond and hindering the performance of the pond’s spillway.

EWB-Yale Starts a New Partnership in Naitolia, Tanzania

Aug. 07, 2017 – For the next five years, the EWB Chapter at Yale will be working on a project in Naitolia Village in the Arusha Region of Tanzania, to improve the community’s access to clean water. Today, a team consisting of four undergraduates (Constance Lam, Patrick Hong, Madison Shankle and Annabelle Pan) and chapter mentors Dave Sacco and Prof. Jordan Peccia will leave for Tanzania on an assessment trip. Our goals are to better understand the current water problems in Naitolia and develop sustainable solutions to aid the community.

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