MPONELA, Malawi (KDVR)-is a roll of adhesive tape in everything that Jordan Banda requires to fix the engine problems facing its four wheels it faces a few days ago on a dominated road in East Africa.
Program director at Marion Medical Mission, who records thousands of miles annually among remote villages, Banda is used in driving challenges in Malawi.
“I detonated the clutch in a truck in the middle of the night and I had to save them. I was stuck in the sand until the links. I was subjected to the collapse of a bridge.
Then there is a time when the Doug Ki vehicle was launched, a rare occurrence in the rural areas of Malawi where there is a very few crime.
The challenges of road mobility in one of the poorest countries and the least developed on earth are all in the work of one day for Marion Mission 19 on Earth now Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania. Many volunteers from Colorado. All of them participate in the final stage to install some of more than 4000 safe and sustainable drinking water that plans non -profit to install in the most remote African villages this year alone.
Over the past few decades, Marion Medical Mission has installed more than 58,000 wells in Africa, without end on the horizon, because the need is very large.
Often, people said, “Why caners not themselves to raise themselves through Bootstraps? “They have no shoes!” Said Tom Logan, the founder of Marion Medical Mission and its president, said to the volunteers in a training session last week.
Logan has done this work since the mid -eighties of the last century, and he says the need is very large, and someone had to intervene.
Logan told Fox31: “People from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda (United States) have called:” Hey, as you know, we need water, and we come and build some wells here. “
Among those who help, Marion Officer of the Medical Mission, Francis Kabonda, who helps oversee the construction of new wells. The program Coordinator Jordan Panda, who took Fox31 to a village where a well was dug. Before the project, the villagers were sick of drinking water.
One of the villagers told Fox31: “As we drink bad water, we feel pain in our stomach.”
“It was not as if I came here and explained to them how to build a well. We learned how to build a good together.”
The Charitable Society has helped more than five million Africans reaching clean water over the past few decades, while overcoming unproductive challenges to accomplish the task.
Even if it means carrying an additional roll of adhesive tape, if the engine repairs need.
To learn more about Marion’s medical mission,Visit their web page.