Well digger, Hastings Mbewe
Hastings Mbewe has been an inspiration to many in his area. Now he wants to expand his well digging business. He appreciates the fact that Jacana wants to guide him in this process.
Expert Henk Holtslag
SMARTech advisor Henk Holtslag is willing to train him in manual borehole drilling and installation of rope pumps.
We stopped adding monitoring data after November 2018 for Hastings Mbewe.
Hastings Mbewe is a man of many trades He is currenlty mainly occupied in solar design and installations, also trained and guided by Jacana. Learn more about solar training at https://jacana.help/resources/solar and track records: https://jacana.help/msolar.
November 2018
Moses and Hastings drilled three boreholes in Southern Province, at Rangoon Island in Kafue river. They had to transport all the materials by a small boot to the Island. The pumps produced by Gideon Phiri and Joseph Kabwe.
Pump on Rangoon Island
Drilling set transport per canoe
Private borehole with pump in Rangoon Island
Pump at Ragoon Island
October 2018
Hastings drilled a borehole at Evans and Raban Banda’s place. The pump was produced by Gideon Phiri
Pump at Evans and Raban’s place
July 2018
Hasting was guiding the four new drillers from Khova ward, Erasmus, Obuloni, Andrew and Francisco. He guided the drilling of two boreholes at the houses of Erasmus and Obuloni. These pumps will be used for household use, but also for marketing purposes.
Pump at Erasmus Zulu’s house
June 2018
Hastings was selected together with Osward and Moses to be assistant trainers during the drillers training of 6 new drillers. The trainers were Labana Kaduma from Tanzania and Elias Musumala from Malawi (CCAP SMART centre). Hastings performed very well as an assistant trainer. He is calm, can listen very well and explain to the participant how to solve problems.
May 2018
The same customer wanted another borehole with a rope pump, because he has more than 1000 layer chickens and he needs to keep the chicken house clean and give them water. The pump was produced by Gideon Phiri
Pump for chicken rearing
March 2018
Hastings and Steven drilled a private borehole for a customer in Mfuwe. The pump was produced by George Chulu.
Private pump in Mfuwe
February 2018
Hastings and Steven got a private customer from Katete which is about 86 kilometers from Chipata. They went for almost two weeks and where able to put a smile on the face of Mr Moses Zulu their customer with a borehole.
Pump in Katete at Moses.
Hastings and Steven drilled a borehole at Abraham Zulu’s house. George Chulu produced the pump.
Pump Abraham Zulu
January 2018
Hastings Mbewe and Steven Zulu made a new borehole on top of the hill near to the house and far from the toilet from farmer Stephen Tembo. Mrs. Tembo has difficulties walking and is very happy with this new water source. Also the neighbours use the water. Since the pump is on top of the hill, is easy to irrigate his garden which is downhill. The pump was made by George Chulu. Good work men!
Pump at Stephen Tembo
December 2017
Hastings Mbewe and Steven Zulu had to work during the night to complete the pump installation at beekeeper Bandson Tembo. Reason for that was that one of the pipes had a slightly different dimension and had to be changed in town. But in the end everybody was happy and there was a lot of clean water. George Chulu made the pump.
Pump at Bandson Tembo
November 2017
Hastings Mbewe and Steven Zulu installed a pump at farmer Elina Zulu. They also made a ground water recharge system for her. It will catch a lot of water this raining season. The pump was made by Moses Banda.
Pump at farmer Elina Zulu
Water recharge at Elina
October 2017
Hastings and Reuben made a tank at farmer James Mbewe.
Tank at James Mbewe
Now when the community gets free water, they automatically also put a bucket of water in James his tank ready for irrigation. This way, there is no complex payment system needed for the water.
Tank at James Mbewe
September 2017
Hastings and Steven successfully drilled a borehole at Kelvin Magawa‘s garden.The borehole has enough water for the garden, nearby villages and the farmers next to kelvin. This borehole never dries up and has continued to give plenty of water for his garden.
Drilling at Kelvin Magawa
August 2017
Hasting and his team faced some problems as a group. Jacana proposed to have every week a weekly planning meeting. This is very helpful for the group. Also a bookkeeping system is introduced to Steven and his team. There is no longer confusion about money needed for materials, back up money and salaries. Everybody registers his hours worked and according to that they get paid. Steven showed himself as a great leader of the team.
The well of Thomas Phiri was deepened by Hastings and Steven. In this well they could not use the Mzuzu drilling method because the soil structure at the bottom of the well was very rocky. Steven and Hastings had to climb inside with a hammer and chisel to deepen it.
After that they installed the pump. The clean water was very welcomed by Thomas his wife and the neighbors.
Pump at Thomas Phiri
June & July 2017
Hasting worked as electrician these month, wiring a house.
May 2017
Hastings drilled 4 boreholes and installed rope pumps this month together with his colleagues. One of them was at his own house.
Drilling and Pump Hastings
Drilling and Pump Edward
Drilling and Pump Micheal
Drilling and Pump Hillary
April 2017
Hastings was part of the team who drilled at Steven’s place. They drilled manually up to 23 meters.
Drilling and Pump Steven
March 2017
During Jacana’s 3 weeks technical training that Hastings attended, he exhibited enthusiasm and focus and he acquired technical drilling skills in the following technologies:
- Auguring
- Soil punching
- Mzuzu drilling with chisel, open and closed bailers
- Drilling using Jetting
- Drilling by Sledging
- Bapthist drilling (percussion)
- Corbel, open well covering
Hastings is sludging
Hastings attended the Jacana basic training for three days and after that in March 2017 the technical training.
Manual drilling service provider, business plan
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SOLUTION
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UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION
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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
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CUSTOMER
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KEY METRICS
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Click here to learn how to read a Lean Canvas Business model.
The cell PROBLEM formulates the problems from the customers, problems which the entrepreneur will try to solve.
The cell SOLUTION describes how the entrepreneur tries to solve problems for his/her customers.
This cell UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION describes why the business is different and worth getting attention from the customer. This could be the text for the billboard
The cell COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE shows how the entrepreneur can defend him/herself against competition. What advantage does the entrepreneur has that is hard to copy by the competition?
This cell CUSTOMER describes who the customers of the entrepreneur are.
This cell KEY METRICS indicates how the entrepreneur can measure his/her success.
This cell CHANNELS describes how the entrepreneur builds a path to his/her customers.
In every plan there are assumptions (things the entrepreneur does not know before he/she starts). The cell MOST CRITICAL ASSUMPTION indicates the assumption that is most critical for the success of the plan.
The cell TEST indicates how the entrepreneur will test or has tested the Most Critical Assumption before making the decision to start. The test should be cost efficient. While testing, customers already get to know the new business offer.
This cell COST STRUCTURE lists the operational costs for doing the Test. Besides this the entrepreneur has a full Financial Plan worked out for the operation of his/her business. This Full Financial Plan is often attached to the Canvas model.
This cell REVENUE STREAMS shows how the entrepreneur will price the offer. Besides this the entrepreneur has a full Financial Plan worked out for the operation of his/her business. This Full Financial Plan is often attached to the Canvas model.Jacana will support Hastings in:
- Providing technical training in manual drilling
- Provision of initial tools and materials for few pumps
- Guidance in book keeping and financial management.
- Internet and website training.
This is part of a bigger project, sponsored by Aqua for All.
