1st week - build week

On monday we started off from Swakopmund to drive north to the damarland region to work near the Urab river. Monday evening we stayed at base camp and tuesday drove further into damarland to the farmers to finish off a wall around the windmill that pumps the water into the tanks. The reason a wall is built so that the elephants will not break the pump as they will smell that there is water.

Unfortunately when we arrived at the farmer we found no water in the tank so we could not build as we needed the water for the cememt. We stayed the night and then the next morning still no water so we headed back to base camp to help finish off a dome building. this involved building a wall and then placing a dome onto of the wall. We also need to clear sand from the inside of the dome. We then also helped build a well in the riverbed to provide water for cooking,drinking and showers.