Monday, we were originally scheduled to go to Chikwawa and begin working on the Ndlema Village Water Treat Project. This would have been transporting the barrels and all materials up early Monday morning, building a platform, starting work on the bio char by end of day Tuesday. It would not have been until Saturday, when we assembled the apparatus, that we would have returned to Blantyre. However, because of the length of trip involved, spotty cell service, and lack of faculty oversight available, we postponed the trip until later in the week. It was then decided that the risks involved in this project, as well as the issues with simply building a treatment system and then leaving, were too much to continue.

Therefore, it was back to the drawing board. We decided to look for a closer village, one where a faculty member could hopefully be more available to supervise in case anything happened. We would be less focused on creating an entire water treatment system and instead try to work through the moringa seed dosage, method of dosage, and time of treatment. Biological contaminants, such as e. coli and coliform count, and turbidity would be the tests used to determine the effectiveness. A planned trip to the school site in Lunzu is planned for Thursday.