My name is Caitlin and I am a licensed Civil Engineer. My passion is to support remote impoverished villages worldwide, showing God's love as I help people gain access to safe drinking water, appropriate sanitation and basic hygiene education. I work in partnership with community leaders to produce sustainable projects.
Although we explained over and over, the men didn’t want to detach the extensions every 9’…rather they pulled the drill out as high as possible before the whole thing would start tipping
Cyrus is using the the fire to heat and form pvc pipe
Job was very cautious with us when we had to go to the market. I felt pretty safe with my 6.5′ (?) bodyguard.
The young boys of the Dinka tribe. The little boy on the left approached me on the first day and in very clear english said “My name is David. David Din Din”
Casting a net in Ngapacot, South Aweil, South Sudan
We spent days drilling in this location. We pulled countless buckets of the same exact soil…for meters and meters. It never changed. While I was getting frustrated in how long it was taking and how slow our progress was God was working out all the kinks in the operation. We ended up making some changes … More The Drilling never stops…
During one of our afternoons, we found that progress would be delayed until the following day because our national host, the main pupil for our training, had to move out of his current apartment. One of the american hosts offered to drive us up to his village so we could evaluate the surroundings as a … More Side trip to Panjakent
We traveled around the village teaching our hosts how to pick appropriate locations for the wells. The village was larger then I had expected and had a trench system along each street that brought water from a large canal into the village. The water was all runoff water so it is grossly contaminated. It was … More Final words on Tajikistan
The couple lived in a small mud house with a courtyard area that housed their animals, garden, water filtration jugs and cooking area. When I say “water filtration” – I mean, sediment settling jugs. Basically, they take water from trenches along the road, place them in jugs for a day, allow the dirt and heavy … More Existing Source of Water
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