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January 18, 2008

Food and Water Supplies in Lila

This is Lila, one of the Fulani villages where we want to drill a well. Pastor Samuel has an open invitation to teach the gospel there, and it is the village we spent the night with the team from Hatteras Island.

About 700+ people get their water at these hand-dug water-holes, the same wells that are used to water hundreds of cows, sheep, and goats.

The same village has these unusual grain stores, built from stone, with mud "cement" to hold the stones together.

A couple of Fulani girls at the wells:

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Posted by Keith at January 18, 2008 11:44 AM