The roads are bumpy (understatement of the year)! If you can call them roads...many aren't. We are not on paved roads for very long. Some of the dirt roads are better then others. Some are wide and have been graded sometime in the part, though usually before the last rainy season so they are pretty rutted. Then there are narrower dirt roads, and then we turn off on a footpath or through a field. Sometimes we can drive right up to the well site and sometimes we walk to get there.
Park the truck and get all the parts needed for the well: big pipes, skinny pipes, the pump, foot valve, connector pieces, suction piece, pipe wrench, tool bag, android (for documenting and GPS). Usually there are plenty of people to carry the pieces to the well...I've only carried parts once this trip!
At the site MMM workers get busy putting the well together. Kimberly and I greet everyone who is there (some of the kids take off running or just stare at us). Then enter the info into the android...water depth, well depth, village name, builder, etc. When the well is installed we dedicate it and take a picture with as many people from the village as we can...sometimes that is many people and sometimes just a handful, it depends on the other activities of the day such as markets, funerals, etc. They are always so grateful and want us to thank those who have thought of them and don't know them. Sending God's blessings with us on our way to continue in this work.
And we're off to the next well...until we decide we have to head back to get in before dark (somedays estimated better then others)...
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