Water For Life
fresh water from a new deep well
Water is life! It feels great to help people get pure drinking water. The village of San Pablo on the Aguarico River has been drinking rain and river water.
Teaming up with the engineering NGO FEDETA, Christadelphian Meal-a-Day Fund of the Americas has nearly completed a new water system to serve this village of 200. Bruce and I went there on Thursday to see how the work is coming along. The residents are doing the installation with guidance from FEDETA. They'll be done in a few more days.
this little girl will benefit from having pure water
Meal-a-Day is not a preaching organization but as Christadelphians, we are Bible readers and believers. As night fell on San Pablo, Bruce got into a discussion about Jonah with Benjamin our host. Benjamin is one of the town's church leaders. We read the book together. (Well, they read it in Spanish and I tried to balance my coconut and Bible and follow along.) Eventually the conversation turned to the promises made to Abraham. It was a wonderful spontaneous discussion and a great way to end the day.
On Friday we stopped in at another community down river from San Pablo to see if it would make a good candidate for a future Meal-a-Day pure water project.
each house has a small solar panel to run lights
this industrious woman uses a pedal sewing machine
When we got back to Coca we jumped into another boat (it's so easy to do around here!) and took a ten minute trip to see something truly revolutionary. Meal-a-Day has been instrumental in moving the development of the "Garmin Aquacharger" forward. It's a device invented by Englishman Peter Garmin to create energy from slow moving river current. Two of them are being tested near Coca. It's probable that this device will deliver energy to tens of thousands worldwide over the next several years.
Tomorrow (Sunday) we'll be heading for home! Bruce and I will have some reflections on this trip and the future of Christadelphian Meal-a-Day Fund of the Americas for you to consider. Thanks for taking the time to join us today!
genuine (live) Amazon butterflies with genuine CMaDFA cap
October 3rd, 2009 - 12:48
You’re almost home! Great job; you must be exhausted. The narration is missing on the last video; is that something Chris can fix?
Love you, and see you soon!
Arlene