Last week Friday (03/05/10) the three volunteers from Water Wins started a new bore hole. They had worked on the rig all week and now started digging. Doug, Steve and Jamie (James) from the GR area and from Caledonia have been staying with us for the week along with the Nigerian director Jeremiah. It has been a fun week. Gremar and I took the Yamaha trail bike available to us out to the site. That was quite a trip since we did not really know the way but only the general direction. I think we did fairly well, maybe an extra wash out or two to cross but all in all we made it by asking direction, not always a good idea; straight ahead, just go straight, they will tell you. When drilling begins at a new site it attracts quite a crowd. The villagers have to form a committee, come up with a certain amount of money, pay for maintenance of the pump and bring clean water for drilling. The project to get clean water to people; often cracks open the door for the gospel where there is otherwise strong traditional African religious practices. Evangelists are there to follow up on these new places. As it is at this site, Uva’di does now have a church and an evangelist is placed there (see map). They are thankful to be getting a bore hole.
The following photos are at the site and getting there.
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