Friday, October 24, 2008

We can't believe it true.

4:23 pm | Edit Post
Over the past couple of days I've taken myself off to the two villages where we're going to be sinking wells during the next couple of weeks.  The money involved to sink a well is way beyond the villagers' capability so when informing them that it would be happening in the next couple of weeks the excitement in their voices was evident.  The chief of one of the villages is usually a quiet dignified old man, but when informed that it would definitely be happening he was literally shouting with excitement.  Just this morning, as I was coming back from the other village, my friend said, "folk still believe it can't be true… normally if discussions begin on something like a well it will often take years (4 to 5 yrs) before (if) anything comes of it".
Spending the morning out in my friend's village we got talking about health issues.  He was telling me how he has (all the symptoms of) severe amoebic dysentery.  He said it seems to be seasonal, for whenever they drink the water from the lake many people in the village come down with the same sickness.  For most of the year animals and people alike us the dry bed of the lake to defecate in.  When it rains, the lake forms, cutting the only road to the nearest clean water supply 3km away, thus leaving the villagers no option but to drink the contaminated water.
It's such a blessing to be able to bring a little light into what would otherwise have been a seemingly hopeless year due to the dismal harvest they've just had.  Do watch this space as the well drilling project comes to its climax – fresh, clean drinking water.

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