I’m back! (in Africa)
Hey everyone! I arrived here in the village of Kaihura Sunday night, and we hit the ground running this morning. The community was so excited about the well, they had already started digging a day early! (And made awesome progress) So, after a hard day’s work today, we are finished digging the 14 foot hole and started laying the cinder-blocks for the main well structure. About 2PM we got poured on (it’s rainy season) but when it lightened up a bit we kept on working. We’re building this thing rain or shine! (Took some sweet video and lots of pics of the process. Will upload to the web once I actually get some bandwidth)
The community who is benefiting from this well is a small, isolated village in the “Katooke” District, which is about an hour drive from Kaihura. The Katooke area is very poor has some pretty huge needs. It was amazing working hand in hand with people from the community today (who are really hard workers), and to see the magnitude of their excitement and the gratitude in their eyes for the work we’re doing in their village. For those of you who don’t know the details of this well project, the “we” is a non-profit called Global Support Mission whom I’m connected with. They have a permanent presence here in Kaihura and thus see, feel, and breathe the needs in the community. Where the rubber meets the road is Know.Think.Act, which is how Global Support broadcasts the needs here in the village to the world and allows people to step up and meet those needs. This well is a result of Know.Think.Act and many of you who have given generously to see peoples lives changed. Thank you to all of you who have given!
To learn more about how you can be involved in truly changing the lives of the people here in Kaihura, check out everything Global Support is doing!
I’ll keep you updated on our progress! Thanks for your thoughts and prayers!
(Please be praying for healing for me… I injured my finger pretty bad a few weeks ago – possibly broke it – and the healing process has been very slow. Not much fun to be digging a well with a broken finger…)
October 18, 2010 at 7:39 pm
YAY!!! Happy you are there are have gotten right to work!! Cant wait to see the progress
October 18, 2010 at 11:11 pm
thanks so much for the update!! we’ve been praying for you & curious how the well was progressing. i’ll definitely be praying for that finger of yours!! thanks again for the post & keep them coming as you can.