Seining for tadpoles & malaria tests for TnT

Esther A's newly expanded fish pond.  The structure in the corner is where cow dung is placed to fertilize the water, to create algae for tilapia fingerlings to feed on.

The pond above is 1 of 4 sponsored by the Rotary District Community Grant. Its empty except for tadpoles.  Fingerlings coming net Tuesday.

Tomorrow I will teach beneficiaries some fish seining techniques practicing on the tadpoles.  I will be a little rusty but I want them to know how to move and use their seine net around for fish sampling and harvesting purposes- plus we want to get rid of these tadpoles which are munching on the good algae. Also the dipnet pictured above is one of ten purchased through the Rotary grant.Its going to be a muddy day.


Things are looking good on the Protected Spring side of things.  The RC Kakamega had a board meeting last night.  They are not going to let us build the 8 springs we wanted.  They want to select and build 8 of their choice.  That's OK, a little disappointing, but I have alot of paperwork, accounting and fish pond work to do.  We are ahead of schedule on the springs will get built.  Tanya and I want to get our Rotary reports 90% done before we return as life will be very busy back home, and everything is fresh on our minds. 

I spent a couple hours today at Golf Hotel this afternoon getting press release and report for Comox Valley Road Runners donation to Kip Keino underpriveleged athletes in Eldoret.  The motivation is back.

Malaria
So we were feeling a bit logey and we have lots of mosquito bites and neither of us took vaccines or malaria meds.  We are at a cafe today and our waitress who we vaguely knew so i started a little chat- she turns out to be a 4th year med student who has been in Houston the last 10 years!  Long and amazing story.  She is back home in Kakamega working at her parents cafe for 6 months, taking a break.  Anyway, that amazing tale aside, we tell her our malaria concerns and she , after tea, walks us down to a clinic and for $2 each we get our blood tested.  We were found to be clean, no parasites in our blood.