http://busogatrustamerica.org Busoga Trust America Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:37:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en BTA competed 20 wells in our fiscal year ended March 31 – on time and on budget. Challenges during the March quarter included several failed attempts to dig a well in the village of Kyakakunguru, the need to abandon one attempt in the village of Mboria II (our second attempt ... http://busogatrustamerica.org/2010/06/30/we-hit-our-f2010-targets-and-are-off-and-runnng-in-f2011/ Board members Jeff Kaplan and Ted Huber led a group of Busoga Trust donors on a trip to Uganda in August. During their three days in Masindi the group visited 9 completed Busoga Trust water sources and helped with the installation of pumps at the Kisanja and Kifuruta ... http://busogatrustamerica.org/2009/10/16/board-members-and-donors-visit-masindi/ A great article was recently written about BTA founder and board member, Ted Huber. Click here to read the full article online. http://busogatrustamerica.org/2009/10/09/bta-founder-ted-huber-featured-in-fairfield-county-business-journal/ Dear Friends, First and foremost, mark your calendars for Busoga Trust America events in NYC on September 24th and in Fairfield County, CT on the 25th. Several of us will be recently back from a visit to Uganda and will have stories, pictures and video to share of our water development ... http://busogatrustamerica.org/2009/07/23/july-newsletter-report/ Robin Waugh has successfully completed his one year as Director of the Masindi Project and will be heading back to Scotland this month. We all owe a great debt to Rob for his creative and tenacious approach to solving problems and keeping the program on track this past year. ... http://busogatrustamerica.org/2009/06/21/june-21-new-director-ned-arrives-rob-take-a-victory-lap/ Emily Polet, who is completing her degree this year at Rochester College in Michigan, raised the funds for a three month internship in Uganda with our development partner Busoga Trust. Emily found us and worked with our board member Jeff Kaplan and Masindi's Operations Manager Rob Waugh to craft ... http://busogatrustamerica.org/2009/06/21/bta%e2%80%99s-first-intern/ The 15th Masindi well was installed (village of Nyakabale) during the second week of April. Our goal for our first year of operation (ended March 31, 2009) was 15 wells. Robin Waugh and his predecessor Matt Fay and they team they build deserve huge credit for overcoming a ... http://busogatrustamerica.org/2009/06/21/april-15-2009-we-hit-first-year-goal-with-the-installation-of-our-15th-well/ The team in Masindi recently began work on our 19th site, the village of Kifuruta. Stay tuned for technical details and a village page on our site for Kifuruta. http://busogatrustamerica.org/2009/06/21/june-21-our-19th-site-is-under-way/ In late September our team in Masindi completed the wells in Kigunya and Kitanyata. This now brings to 5 the number of wells completed since we began operations last spring. We are working in several other communities and hope to complete additional wells yet this year. ... http://busogatrustamerica.org/2008/10/22/october-15-update-kigunya-and-kitanyata-wells-completed/ In early August the well at Nyakarongo was capped and started to provide clean water to that community. The well was dug to a depth of 21ft with a water column of 6ft and a recharge rate of 2ft per hour. Elsewhere digging continues in Kigunya. Two ... http://busogatrustamerica.org/2008/08/26/august-26-nyakarongo-well-installed/