The broken rocks from deep down the borehole
“We aren’t giving up till we accomplish what we came here for,” says one of the three men who are busy digging out the drilling rod that got stuck in the rocks.
A visit to the site has revealed that the men are still breaking the rocks to remove the rod. The drillers say they have so far managed to dig about 2 metres of the rod.
Some months ago Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust embarked on a project to drill a borehole right close to the paediatric ward for the Comfort Community Hospital. Targets were set when they would finish drilling the borehole but little did they know that the job would end abruptly.
The drilling team
In the course of drilling, when they were about 10 metres deep the unexpected happened. The six metre-drilling rod got stuck between rocks and there was nothing that the machine could do. Now three men from around Balaka led by a Mr Kachingwe are busy digging the rod out manually. We wish them success.
By P.K.B