In three days of hard work, our advance mapping team successfully created a digital map of 420 houses in a roughly 12 square kilometre area in the city of Rwamagana. These are the houses for whom our project team will install solar panels for electricity in the second half of July.
The site this year is in the City of Rwamagana near the river Nyabarongo, This river has different names at different places. It meanders generally northwards into Lake Victoria. The River Nile flows out of Lake northwards, through Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan, Egypt, into the Mediterranean Sea. Hence it is considered by some to be the source of the Nile. Theoretically, if one drops a little boat into the Nyabarongo, when we are working in the area, the boat can follow the River Nile and eventually reach the Mediterranean.
This map is going to be an important instrument to guide the effort of installation of hte solar panel systems. Each house can now be identified by a number, the name of the house owner, a geographical coordinate position which can be loaded into mapping applications, and a photograph. The next step is to assign a group of neighbouring houses to each small working team. Th installation will start in mid July.
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