Clean water

One of our last well installations was 300 feet from the lake. (I was very tempted to go for a swim to cool off.) Lake Malawi is known as the calendar lake, 365 miles long and 52 miles across. That is a lot of water. With the rising heat and lower amounts of rain the level of the lake is lower than I remember it. Our first hotel used to have its own private beach just outside of the dining room and now it has sand outside of the dining room and a field of grass and then the lake.

The village was so excited to get their well installed. Clean safe water to drink. Having the lake so close, where everyone washed (bodies, clothes, dishes), where animals live (hippos and crocs), where diseases can be contracted (belharzia). Now there is clean water! Such a gift!

Thanks to donors and volunteers. Thanks to Marion Medical Mission and their staff. Thanks to the water committee and the villagers. Life giving clean water. Unkhanku kwaku chiuta! Uchindami kwa chiuta! Ulemu kwa mulungu! Glory to God!