One Primary boy in a local ward here, when being taught about the principle of fasting was told that it is not eating food or water. He replied, "but water is life." Africans know this. One of the major initiatives the Church has taken in Africa is finding and completing humanitarian projects. The projects are selected to do the most good, regardless of whether the good is for members of the Church or the population in general. A major class of projects is bore holes to create wells of clean water.
This is the Ga West Hosptial which did not have its own source of clean water.
It is hard to keep the environment clean without clean water.
When they are drilling a lot of dust is created.
This is where the drill bit goes down into the tubing. At this point the hole was 100 meters deep.
On this project they had to bring additional drilling pipe because they had not found water at the level they usually do.
Each meter they sample the debris coming out of the hole and lay it out next to other debris samples for a drilling history. By looking at the samples they can tell when they are close to getting water.
The man in the stripped shirt is the driller, called Dr.Joseph because he has degree in drilling. Elder and Sister Curtis and Sister Wilde also came to watch. The man in the pink shirt is the Church's project manager, also named Joseph. The boy in the red shirt is also named Joseph. The man with the cowboy hat and the red shirt is Elder Bullock, a humanitarian missionary from Calgary, Canada who has supervised many bore holes and whose mission ended the first week of May, 2015.
Elder Bullock's projects attract children who he loves to entertain.
Elder Curtis and the Josephs survey the project.
The hospital's research lab has equipment also donated by the Church.
A blind man walking near the hospital.
The hospital's commissary.
We are proud to be affiliated with a Church which does good for the sake of good.
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