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December 06, 2008

Thanks for your prayers

Thanks for your prayers for the well-drilling on the ground of the school we will be building this year.

Unfortunately we didn’t manage to find any water on the school ground, which has been a huge disappointment. Water will be essential not only for the children to drink and for cooking meals, but also for actually building the school.

However, we have found a temporary and partial solution. A nearby secondary school, which has a good water supply, had an extra pump that was broken down. The school agreed that if we repaired it, we would be able to use the water for our school until a longer-term solution is found.

So, on the last day, the team worked until after dark, watched by crowds of school children, to take apart the old pump, and put a new pump on. What a relief it was when it was finished, and water flowed! Thank God with us for this.

Hopefully this will provide enough water for cooking and drinking, but we may need to truck in water for building. And we will need to look for other possibilities to get a water supply on the school ground itself.

Please come back for more photos of the well-drilling, and to keep up with news of progress on the school.

Posted by Keith at December 6, 2008 07:46 AM