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- Well Construction
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation; Agriculture
- This Volunteer started out in Upper Volta aiding in the construction of wells and rural development. After two years, he and anotherVolunteer conceived and started an agricultural resources magazine for Voltaic agriculture agents and concerned...
- Agency Photos
- Discussing Construction
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation; Agriculture
- This Volunteer is working on a long-term development project involving health surveillance, nutrition, well-digging, vegetable production and reforestation. The main focus of his activities has been village health surveys and a disease and...
- Agency Photos
- Earthen Dam Construction Project
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- Shown are village women and children, who were recruited to carry earth to build up the dam at Piela, the site of an earthen dam construction project. 1974
- Agency Photos
- Earthen Dam Construction Project
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- Shown in this photo are villagers repairing the Dabesma dam, a project started by a former Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Upper Volta from September 1969 to March 1973, building earthen dams to decrease watershed and runoff after the rainy...
- Agency Photos
- Earthen Dam Construction Project
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- Piela workers walk along the top of the dam to tamp down the soil, while a villager plays a one-string violin type instrument to spur them on. Piela is the site of an earthen dam construction project. 1974
- Agency Photos
- Digging Wells
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- This Action Peace Corps Volunteer digs wells in Boulsa, Upper Volta. He has helped the villagers put in 14 new cement-lined wells, and deepen several others. He is shown here with a co-worker at a well to be used for a vegetable gardening...
- Agency Photos
- Reinforcing the Well
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- A voltaic mason inserts steel reinforcing rods in order to add another meter’s depth to this well in Boulsa. 1974
- Agency Photos
- Constructing the Walls of the Well
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- A Bourzanga villager mixes cement for the walls of the well. The strenuous task of constructing a well usually takes four or five months. Since all available hands are needed in the field during the growing season from late June to early November,...
- Agency Photos
- Reinforcing the Well
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- A voltaic mason inserts steel reinforcing rods in order to add another meter’s depth to this well in Boulsa. 1974
- Agency Photos
- Hand Pump Irrigartion System
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- A Peace Corps Volunteer and the chief of Zimtenga, a village in northern Upper Volta, discuss plans to improve the hand pump irrigartion system for this village vegetable garden. He has already helped put in 25 new wells in the region and is...
- Agency Photos
- Hand Pump Irrigartion System
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- A Peace Corps Volunteer and the chief of Zimtenga, a village in northern Upper Volta, discuss plans to improve the hand pump irrigartion system for this village vegetable garden. He has already helped put in 25 new wells in the region and is...
- Agency Photos
- Well Construction Supervision
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- This Volunteer is one of 20 Volunteers supervising the construction of wells in Upper Volta. Landon is Here, he and two village residents view a well in progress.
- Agency Photos
- Well Inspection
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- This Volunteer works in the wells construction program in Upper Volta, where he supervises the construction of permanent cement-reinforced wells in poor villages. Here he inspects a well in the center of Yalogho. 1976
- Agency Photos
- Well Supervision
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- This Volunteer works on reforestation in Dori, a cultural crossroads of 6,000 people. Here he supervises the relay of watering buckets that nourish the nursery.
- Agency Photos
- Wells Program Coordinator
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- This Volunteer is the wells program coordinator for all of Upper Volta. He spent two years digging wells in the Barsalogho District, based in the village of Nammissiguima. Then he extended his tour an extra year, and is responsible for meeting with...
- Agency Photos
- Well Construction Program
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- This Volunteer is one of 20 Volunteers assigned to the well construction program in Upper Volta. Here he inspects a well being dug in the village. The village chief stands at the left. February 1976
- Agency Photos
- Wells Program Coordinator
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- This Volunteer is the wells program coordinator for all of Upper Volta. He spent two years digging wells in the Barsalogho District, based in the village of Nammissiguima. Then he extended his tour an extra year, and is responsible for meeting with...
- Agency Photos
- Well Construction Supervision
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- This Volunteer is one of 20 Volunteers supervising the construction of wells in Upper Volta. Landon is Here, he and two village residents view a well in progress. 1976
- Agency Photos
- Well Digging
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- This Volunteer works as a well digger and has constructed 35 wells throughout Ouagadougou. He works with a Voltaic counterpart from the regional rural development office and supervises the work of the villagers. 1978
- Agency Photos
- Constructing Wells
- Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation
- This Volunteer llowers reinforcing rods into the well he is helping build in Kongoussi, Upper Volta, West Africa. He is one of 20 volunteers throughout Upper Volta supervising the construction of badly needed wells. The wells replace the...
- Agency Photos