Kampala village continues to celebrate
clean water
May 4, 2014
Hallelujah Sunday! After church and
lunch we all made a trip to Kampala Village to see the new deep water
well in action. This is Angie's first hand experience seeing the
well and of course we wanted her to report to Tom! As it happened,
Tom, ended up texting me while we were in the village as Angie's
phone was off so I was able to send him the praises of the new well!
After a series of talks, one by the assistant LC 1 (who asked for
malaria treatment for the villagers seemingly not to know about the
clinic?!) and then by the water board, they had us stand around and
gave Angie the ceremonial key to officially "unlock" the
well and provide water! With this flower petals were thrown at her.
It was a time of great joy and celebration once again with singing
and dancing and of course soda! We lined the kids up and Jean and
Gretchen gave them all a chewable vitamin (my kind of "sweetie").
They were very grateful! It was good to see the elderly women again
who prayed and prayed for this to happen. They have been using the
well for almost 6 months and the neighbors are paying something small
for the future maintenance we know they all will need. I counted the
village board to be 7 in all and will be giving them all world water
day T shirts to signify this important and great job of protecting
the well! They also constructed a fine fence to protect it and we
know this is so precious to them they will treat it well for a long
time to come. We all wished to " Good Tom" could be there,
but "Big Tom" readily rejoiced with all for him as did we
all and especially Angie who was quite moved by the day, beginning
with her experience at the church in the morning. Tom Osborne, you
have done a great job in providing clean water, a source of life and
great joy to the impoverished people of Kampala village! You are a
legend in this area and loved much! Till you all meet
again....Hallelujah...Amen!
Nadine
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