Introducing One of Our Colombian Friends
Let me tell you a little about Mauricio today.
Since the days of Meal a Day UK’s involvement in South America, we have worked with Mauricio, a talented engineer with a heart for Colombia’s poor. Several projects have provided communities in the remote plains and also the remote Amazon regions with potable water and with basic electricity. Mauricio’s current project is to provide potable water to a remote community “El Viento”. He works with the local community and its leaders to understand how to organize and how to combine resources to fund the project. He then engineers it, orders materials, supervises the transport and local efforts at construction, manages technical installations and training, etc.
Our plan is to travel to El Viento and visit with the villagers about their community project. Weather permitting, Mauricio also plans to take us to a couple of other sites that are potential candidates for electrification or water purification systems.
Today, Sunday, Mauricio is picking us up at 7:30 am for breakfast. Then we're going to visit with Claudia, his wife about what she is doing to help people here in Villavicencio. Many more details (and hopefully some video) in Monday morning's blog. And we'll be visiting a blind Christadelphian who we are helping carry out an education program, teaching people how to prevent the kind of blindness he is afflicted with. So Monday morning's blog will introduce Luis to you.
Have a great day!
Steve