Fuel!

Team 1 is home (or almost). Team 2 has left Mponela and is ready to get out in the field. We’re in place to get started tomorrow with installations. As we drove up to Mzuzu (northern Malawi) we noticed the roads are much better than last year. Before we entered Mzuzu we decided to do a driver switch and pulled into a fuel station. As we were trying to leave we jokingly asked if there was diesel (we haven’t found any in over a week) and the answer was YES!  So we filled up! Ready to go!!

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Fuel lines:   We really lucked out!

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The end (part 1)

Team 1 installations are over! 985 pumps installed!! 985 clean safe places to get water that can be maintained! Tomorrow 6 volunteers leave and 12(?) arrive! And we’ll do it all again!

Our last well

These are my favorite bananas…if only they were ready

Dancing with joy and abandon 

Clearing the sand off (put on for concrete curing)

Any amount small or large will help to fund this life giving gift. For $500 (an entire well) you will get a picture of the well and some of the villagers that you have sponsored. To donate go to mmmwater.org

Rain?

Woke up to grey clouds, sprinkles, and it was cold…not a word I use in Malawi. Especially Sept/Oct. We went to the flat lands after yesterday’s hikes. Found happy people, some new songs as well as standards. Most of the villagers followed from well to well. 

Any amount small or large will help to fund this life giving gift. For $500 (an entire well) you will get a picture of the well and some of the villagers that you have sponsored. To donate go to mmmwater.org

Peek a boo during the dedication 

Old water source- drinking water from within the circle (slightly protected with rock and sand), water for washing and other activities- the rest of the river

Dancing with the village chief

Hard to light a fire with it misting but why is he still holding it?!?

Future MMM employee? He was so helpful!

How far?!?

LONG hikes today! Down steep slopes and back up again. ‘We are so grateful you are here. Other NGOs shun us for our steep terrain and lack of roads, and yet here you are, with us, with this clean water’ ‘Be sure to take back our gratitude to those who stayed behind. We are so very thankful.’

Down past the village. And then back up again. 

He was crying so I picked him up and carried him part of the way. 

This agogo made it to multiple well installations…and they weren’t close. 

He was not at all sure of the azungu taking the photo 

Help answer a neighbors prayer. Any amount small or large will help to fund this life giving gift. For $500 (an entire well) you will get a picture of the well and some of the villagers that you have sponsored. To donate go to mmmwater.org

Mid week

We’ve had some long days. Distances, number of wells installed, heat, very rough roads. Of course it’s all worth it when you see the smiles (and astonishment), receive the chickens, glory in the colors, dance with the women, realize the time you are giving to those who used to fetch water from “over there”. They say we are blessing them, but I know I’m feeling blessed. 💗🔥💦

Be the answer to prayer. Any amount small or large will help to fund this life giving gift. For $500 (an entire well) you will get a picture of the well and some of the villagers that you have sponsored. To donate go to mmmwater.org

Monday!

We got fuel delivered and were able to get moving again today! We moved to Dowa (again still central Malawi) with parts for 50 wells, checked into our hotel, unloaded 37 wells’ parts (pic taken by Jamie Jones), and went out and installed 11! That’s a long day! But so worth it. 

Many new wells had water nearby, either streams, rivers, or irrigation. Close but not safe to drink. And some were interesting to get pics of…I had to cross a stream and look down on one, I was above another (after being below it to get the data entered). 

From below entering data 

Traded places (from above)

And the kids had some fun in the water too!

Just look at that smile. 

Any amount small or large will help to fund this life giving gift. For $500 (an entire well) you will get a picture of the well and some of the villagers that you have sponsored. To donate go to mmmwater.org

Moved

Jamie and I moved to Dowa district (still central Malawi) on Thursday. We put in wells all week until about 1 on Saturday (a half day) when our truck told us (with a sputter) that one tank was empty and the other 1/4 full. So we headed back to the hotel and will enjoy this quiet Sunday and await the arrival of diesel back in fuel stations (hopefully). 

FO Kaponda put together this video of one of our days out! Great showing. 

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