Day One
Hello, Michael here. Myself and my daughter Emily are in Mozambique.
We're in a place called Lichinga, it's pretty big, about 10,000 people, roughly the same size as Glastonbury. The town, not the festival!
The reason we're here is we're donating about £130,000-£140,000 a year from the festival to WaterAid. Profits are going to increase by about 50% in the future I think, so we're going to be doing more and more of this kind of work. We were very keen to come and see how the money's been spent, that it's not being wasted or anything.
All the money WaterAid spend here goes on the water pumps and proper latrines for the lavatory business to be done properly as well. These wells only cost a total of about £1,000 each so WaterAid does the funding operation almost entirely themselves, from the money they raise in Britain. And a lot of that comes from the festival. So we're making sure that they're happy.
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[caption]WaterAid Suzanne Porter[/caption]
It's a bit technical, but I'm an expert now! They make their own pumps from car tyres and bicycle wheels and it's a long ramp that comes up through a plastic tube. It goes down about 12 metres into the ground and pulls the water up through the tube. It's incredible. Each well costs about $2,000, so that's where we come in basically. We spent all day looking at that.
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[caption]WaterAid Suzanne Porter[/caption]
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[caption]WaterAid Suzanne Porter[/caption]
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/84_WA_Mozambique0128_03.jpg[/image]
[caption]WaterAid Suzanne Porter[/caption]
I've been shopping too - I bought a CD by the South African reggae artist Lucky Dube. And when we were back at the hotel, they had Phil Collins on, so I changed the CD! I ended up dancing with this lady to Lucky Dube, it was great! Do you think I'm being too hard on Phil Collins? Probably not!
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[caption]WaterAid Suzanne Porter[/caption]
We're going to a concert with lots of local bands tonight, and I'm really looking forward to that. It should be great.
We'll be in Lichinga again tomorrow checking out the wells - I'll let you know about that and about the gig tomorrow! Bye for now.
Michael
We're in a place called Lichinga, it's pretty big, about 10,000 people, roughly the same size as Glastonbury. The town, not the festival!
The reason we're here is we're donating about £130,000-£140,000 a year from the festival to WaterAid. Profits are going to increase by about 50% in the future I think, so we're going to be doing more and more of this kind of work. We were very keen to come and see how the money's been spent, that it's not being wasted or anything.
All the money WaterAid spend here goes on the water pumps and proper latrines for the lavatory business to be done properly as well. These wells only cost a total of about £1,000 each so WaterAid does the funding operation almost entirely themselves, from the money they raise in Britain. And a lot of that comes from the festival. So we're making sure that they're happy.
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/84_WA_Mozambique0062_01.jpg[/image]
[caption]WaterAid Suzanne Porter[/caption]
It's a bit technical, but I'm an expert now! They make their own pumps from car tyres and bicycle wheels and it's a long ramp that comes up through a plastic tube. It goes down about 12 metres into the ground and pulls the water up through the tube. It's incredible. Each well costs about $2,000, so that's where we come in basically. We spent all day looking at that.
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/84_WA_Mozambique0223_04.jpg[/image]
[caption]WaterAid Suzanne Porter[/caption]
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/84_WA_Mozambique0115_02.jpg[/image]
[caption]WaterAid Suzanne Porter[/caption]
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/84_WA_Mozambique0128_03.jpg[/image]
[caption]WaterAid Suzanne Porter[/caption]
I've been shopping too - I bought a CD by the South African reggae artist Lucky Dube. And when we were back at the hotel, they had Phil Collins on, so I changed the CD! I ended up dancing with this lady to Lucky Dube, it was great! Do you think I'm being too hard on Phil Collins? Probably not!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/84_WA_Mozambique0247_05.jpg[/image]
[caption]WaterAid Suzanne Porter[/caption]
We're going to a concert with lots of local bands tonight, and I'm really looking forward to that. It should be great.
We'll be in Lichinga again tomorrow checking out the wells - I'll let you know about that and about the gig tomorrow! Bye for now.
Michael
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