Dry Tears

Saturday, June 7

So let me tell you about this vision that my team leader, Jeff Beech (who is with the Beech Foundation, cool guy) had. At the beginning of the trip he told me about the vision he had for the special needs school that the borehole is going in. He thought it would be so cool for the school to get clean running water as well as the surrounding community. But then he took it one step further and said he thought it’d be cool if the local businesses that use water for their product or their business could buy the water from the school (they would have it put into a water truck for transportation). They would sell it cheaper than what they were previously getting for which would help the business and build up the economy (I’m not sure if it would make that big of a difference but I think it might). The money used for the water would then go to the school to help pay for medicine, better and healthier food, and more teachers.

So yeah I thought it was a pretty cool idea.

So  tonight, Jeff and this other dude named Zablon (sweet name, tight guy), went and had a meeting with the MP of Nekuru, which is like the equivalent of a senator. Jeff told him this vision he had for the school, and the MP totally loved it and he committed to doing everything in his power to get the businesses to buy the water from there. That was pretty encouraging!