Water pumps for rural Guatemalan communities

Fundraising 10 year anniversary Waves of Change
12 May I celebrated the 10 year anniversary of my company SomethingElse (which is the 'holding company' of Waves of Change: the company underwriting...

Building water pumps in Xepatán
Up high in the beautiful, lush mountains of Guatemala live the Kaqchikel; an ethnic subgroup of the Mayas. Shadowed by the active and still...

One week's work in Guatemala
Xetapan, a village enveloped in mist on most days now due to the clouds from the Pacific that drift over this high area, close to Patzun. Patzun is...

Yes, this project is "Under Construction"!
The month February we worked at our WorkYard near San Juan la Laguna. Good progress with the system we need for well digging. We need rings, but thin...

How the parts can fit together
This experiment we did to learn about cement needed, sturdiness achieved, ease of learning for our workers and potential functionality.

Special way of making rings for the well
Thin walled concrete rings come in sized that fit into each other. The top ring is the biggest, the lining smaller, the rings that sink in the water...

Make it nice
The concrete parts can be dull, smooth and gray, but also colourful decorated, here with bits of glass. Of course children like that better and they...