Check out the latest photo updated regarding CFI’s work on Kokota Islet. We’ve been busy with the school and rainwater tank construction as the heavy rains are only a few weeks away.


“An island off an island – no school and no fresh water”

From Kokota – The Beginning of Change, posted by on 3/21/2012 (21 items)

Kokota is a small islet set off of Pemba Island in the Indian Ocean. Fishing is a way…
CFI staff take a boat to Kokota, which can be seen straight ahead.
There is no fresh water in Kokota. Each day villagers travel by wooden boat to Pemba …
A cooking pot on a roof collects more rainwater


Children lined the beach when we arrived. There is no school in Kokota so youth often…
At present a Baobab tree is used as a classroom. CFP Executive Director, Mbarouk Muss…
Kokotan Villagers had started building a school before we arrived. This is what they’…
So CFI decided to support their effort. We agreed to supply the materials if Kokota s…


1200 bricks were transported for the school construction.
Builders pick up where they’d left off.
The school so far. We’re ready for the roof.
The school from the back.


So we’ve got a start on the school. How about the water? This picture shows the conta…
We’re going to try and collect rainwater off of the schools roof. To do so we need to…
The tank needs to be 1 meter below ground. CFI staff show Kokotans the depth required…
The digging begins and the work is grueling.


The coral rock be needs to be chipped away.
Then carried off the site.
The tank builders watch over the site preparation.
Several Kokotans worked each day over a ten day span to get the site prepared.


The amount of work that the villagers of Kokota have accomplished is amazing. They wo…


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