Happy New Year

During the month of December God enabled our family to be able to give a gift of love to our neighbors by rehabilitating an open hand dug well. Funds for this project were made possible through the generous support of friends and churches. This well, which is located just outside our front gate, serves more than 200 people each day. We thought it would be a good place to start and a good opportunity to learn the “ropes” of installing and maintaining simple hand pumps. For months we have observed how many people use this well daily, and unfortunately how many animals do too. Can you imagine having to stand in a dirty pool of water to try and draw clean water for your family? Since this was an unsealed well, the surface contaminates quickly leach back into the well polluting the water with harmful bacteria. We also discovered little red worms in the water which were making people sick. Then, there was the safety factor to consider when wells remain open that sometimes small children or animals can fall into the wells. Water is collected from the shallow well by the use of a rope tied to a bucket which often carries contaminates into the well with each toss of the bucket. All of these problems had to be addressed. For more pictures, and the rest of the story click here. For Those Who Thirst For More, The Richter Family