Road trip - from sunrise to sunset: solar in Tanzania
Day 12 of David Fryer and Mason Huffine's Lindi mission
While Mason and I begin training, the installers are still very busy. Sleeping on site with little food or clean water and working from sunrise to sunset, they are starving but never complain - what great guys.
Installers fit a macrosolar system to a school roof.
The next day we bring rice, beans, water, nuts and juice with us. One of the teachers' house-girls uses the ingredients to cook a much needed meal for the Installers. Refuelled, they install six more systems within three days.
Meanwhile, Mason and I get on with installing microsolar study lights in the dormitories. It surprised me how many dead scorpions there were. I was later informed that when Dennis surveyed the school he was bitten by a snake and had to go to hospital
With the installation complete we leave to Mnara. It is raining hard when we hit the road making the off road driving conditions even harder.
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