MPONELA, Malawi (KDVR) – it is an arduous task. A non -profit organization with the ambitious goal of completing the installation of more than 4000 safe and sustainable drinks in the remote villages of East Africa. Colorado volunteer plays an important role in pulling it.
Jim Nussbaumer from Estes Park is a retired software engineer who was traveling to Malawi with a charity calledMarion Medical MissionSince 1999, the organization helps in obtaining the tools needed to help crew sets to install 58,000 wells that they have already completed via Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique.
It also helps them to secure the rugged vehicles needed to accomplish the task. He helped manufacture pumps that pull the water water from the ground, giving fresh water to an estimated five million African, in the past, who had to drink polluted and dangerous water, full of bacteria from animals that share the same water source.
But well water is not the only reason that is attracted to one of the poorest countries and the least developed on earth. He has already came to Malawi nearly 30 years ago, when his wife Carroll went to work inEmbangWeni School for Deaf ChildrenIn the north of Malawi.
“It has become very clear that it was an invitation from God that this was her chosen position,” Nospaomeer told Fox31.
In addition to installing all water wells throughout East Africa, Marion Medical Mission has reached the money to build the first semester of the school years ago, and it helped build many new buildings for students in the years.
Nussbaumers decided to take matters a step forward, and honor the late Jim’s father by financing the boys’ hostel at school. There are now about 80 boys at home in a specialized school, thanks to the Colorado couple.
The school educates about 200 deaf, population and students with development disabilities. They travel from up to one hundred miles, stay on the campus for weeks at one time, and learn the sign language and other skills.
It is just one of the ways that Nussbaumers have deep roots a thousand miles away from home. Just a few yards from building the building funded by their families, you will find the Carroll and Jim Nosbomer, where students and others work hard to work on fresh foods in a country where the lack of nutrition is often competed in the lack of clean water.
“We got seeds for several years from a manufacturer or a local distributor in Colorado,” Nospaomeer said.
There are many ways to help people in East Africa. Nussbaumers and twenty other volunteers now have found in one of the poorest and least developed regions in the world more than one way to do so.
“It is clear that all this, as you know, is not our action. There is no doubt about it. It was all before. We only had to answer the call in the end,” Nospaomeer said.