Uganda (February 2007): One team taught biofilters to almost 20 students while another man and I taught hand pump repair to 20 other students. We were in northern Uganda in an area that had once been overrun by the “Lord’s Resistance Army.” We heard horror stories of the terrorism and destruction spread by the LRA and its child soldiers. We saw villages that had been destroyed and conducted our training within a stone’s throw of a “displaced persons camp.” People from that camp used the water pump on the compound where we were teaching. We fixed several pumps while teaching. One pump served a displaced persons camp and a school of over 1000 children. Their water source is shown in the picture with the camp in the background. We pulled a pump that had been serving thousands of people in a large suburban area. It had ceased functioning almost 6 months earlier. I enjoy pump repair the most because it costs so little to help so many people. People in northern Uganda are desperate for our help. Between terrorism, AIDS, malaria, unemployment, and WASH related diseases, these people have little to be happy about. It is a good feeling to know the people we taught will be helping many more people (funded by a large grant from Blood Water Mission/Jars of Clay).
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