Well....I thought the roads we had travelled before were rough!!!! Today we took the landroer over a footpath through dry fields of beansand thatch to a bore hole that was funded by PWRDF and CIDA. It was presented by the bishop to the municipality who will now be responsible for it. They plan to charge a small amount to each person who uses the well that is surrounded by chain link and barbed wire in order to have money to maintain it. I ask what happens if someone isn't able to come up with that little money?
The well is in what seems like the middle of nowhere. However it will serve people from many villages who will now walk only up to 5 km for clean water. Only 5 km. to carry a bucket filled with water twice each day on one's head to and from a thatched hut. How many people will miss a meal because of the beans we rolled over with the landrover?
The elders and village officials hold a reception for us afterwards with many speeches and signing of documents. And we are presented with.... a live rooster!!!! we take it and the basket in which it is placed. I wish I could send you a picture of us holding the rooster (which I thought was a chicken!!!). We have given it to Mama Emmie for her farm. I have asked her to promise not to kill it....or at least not to tell me about it! What did it cost this village to give us livestock?
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