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

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

Once in the Shaartuz area, we met with an elderly couple who were very excited to be involved in the project to bring wells to their village.  This particular couple are friends of our national host, who will be running the Shaartuz well drilling project.  Our national host, the elderly couple and a handful of … More Two Christians

The following are a series of photos showing the construction of the lift pump.  We had access to a welder and used it to make the valve for the lift pump.

After we finished construction of the pump, we headed to the little village outside of Shaartuz to check out the possible locations for the 12 wells that our Host is going to construct. We traveled along rolling hills but the closer we got to Afghanistan, the more dry and arid the terrain became.  We stopped … More Tajik Rest Stop