Fixin’ things
This week I thought I would run through an account of some of the efforts to fix various things that I have encountered or some things that may need to be fixed. Let’s start with the rake from our site. Last year we bought the only form of rake you can find here in Singida region for helping to clean up the grass clippings and branches cut. Now understand they have what is called an outdoor broom which looks much like the stereotype of what a witches flying broom would look like. Basically a rough straw set of bristles attached to a piece of wood. The other version has no piece of wood and they bend at the waist to use it or have little kids do it. They are constantly sweeping the dirt around buildings-when the kids do it is more like a mini dust storm. The rake is more like non flexible rakes used raking through dirt before planting it. Well after about one year two of our “tines” broke off from the rake. The tines are made of rebar pi...