Mbiten School

The other day Shayne and I had a meeting with what we thought was going to be the elders of the community that Mbiten school is in. This is the place where we hope to put a spring box in to help supply the school and community with water. Right now they have to walk through the bush almost 1 mile to get water. As we arrived we quickly saw it was more than just the elders it was about 50 people, men women and children. To my surprise the picture below was of them starting the meeting by wanting to pray!!! During these meetings most of the time every man gets a chance to stand up and say his part. There were only a couple in this one that stood up. Shayne as well as myself stood up and shared about what we would like to see happen with the water, they were all very much in agreement and happy. At one point I leaned over and asked Shayne " Do you ever just look around and think, here we sit out in the middle of a huge field in the scorching sun listening to a people that we cant even understand?" We both laughed and were happy we can help.

Some of the young children making the long hike to gather water.
This is a spring box done by one of the NGO's about 2 miles away from where we hope to do one for the school. This one does not work because of poor construction. It was full of frogs and snake skins as the water just runs underneath it.