Well Repair

As we know without water there is no life..The door of opportunity opened in the spring of 2015 as Clean Water for Malawi partnered with us to repair wells. In June Don Postell and Danny McClung along with Lepherson, Paul, and 5 men from Mazuzu formed 3 teams that were able to repair 40 boreholes. More than drilling new boreholes is the problem of keeping all the existing ones operating. In the villages, often the people lack the knowledge and funds to repair their own boreholes. Part of this new work is focusing on educating on proper use and upkeep of existing wells. Clean Water for Malawi has stepped up again in this year of 2016 with an effort to continue this great work. Last month (June), Lepherson and his team repaired 5 boreholes, one of which had not been in operation for 32 years! Now they are drinking clean water once again from this well. We can put an entire well kit in for about $1000.00, We take our water for granted, they die without it!

This is a well that is in need of repair

This is a well that is in need of repair

Rejoicing over the repaired well

Rejoicing over a repaired well

This is why we need wells

This is why we need wells

Lelpherson working at repairing this well

Lelpherson working a repairing this well



We were asked by a member of Parliament if there was anything we could do to help this village.
The villagers were getting sick and dying from drinking polluted water.

Problem Solved

One week later, this was built to prevent pollution of water and a hand pump installed to reach down to get clean water.

 

Shocking Water Sources for villagers

These are some of the water source scenes that overwhelmed Dan and Don on visiting some of the villages lined up for repair. The last one is the water source at Ulondwe Primary School. I see why Don cried after seeing this scene over and over again as they went from...

Charge

I am excited to report that the repairs have begun. Clean Water for Malawi sent a team of 6 men to repair 40 wells. These men and our team joined and broke into 3 teams. I can imagine the exuberant joy of people from 11 villages that have had the repairs already...

Sunday Trials and Victories

Sunday was an interesting, exciting, and anxious day. The previous night we mistakenly put some petrol into our Toyota instead of all Diesel and we thought what little we put in would make no difference. Little did we know that mistake would account for an interesting...

10/16/2014 Report

Recap of 10/16/14 Team went into Lilongwi to order a map from the District Commissioner that will give us the area we service, the villages, the boreholes (wells), and roads in our area. We are trusting the map will come back with all these things included.k David...