This is quite a community event, we are told. Also, the men had no shade during the mid-day m eal and no place to eat together. So another local church member, Yapajook, constructed a shady area with small tree trunks and woven mats over the top. The men also use this area to sleep at night when it is too hot in their rooms. A major problem in the north is lack of water.
Dry time stretches for six months, and many water sources dry up.
To combat this problem, we decid ed to construct two cisterns in the corners of the quad so that water could b e collected off the roofs and stored for dry time. Again the problem was g etting materials here. It was quite a feat to get that all here. The only thing still needed is the iron bars for reinforcement. May. This year we hired someone to haul water from other sources, using a donkey cart.