My next project with Hydromssions will be in Uganda. I do not have all of the logistics sorted out yet but it will be about 5 weeks starting around June 18th. Between now and then I will be taking another course at Equip in March and a pumps class with a new training organization in … More My Next Project is…
These are the teammates who didn’t give up – these guys were amazing!
The guys we worked with were great! Our days were long (10-12 hours) and the work was extremely difficult but they kept it fun and joyful
This is a typical house in Ferrier – the village where our project was located
Our transportation was pretty fun – we bounced around in the bed of a large truck – sometimes jumping up and down on purpose, sometimes just being thrown up and down by the terrain 🙂
I’m learning how to give stitches in my medical training class at Equip. Who is willing to let me practice stitching on a REAL arm? 😉
I am taking a 2-week medical intensive course designed for village care. Today, I am learning to give injections – yikes!
All done! Here is the well I worked on with local villagers in the village of Manzalpur, within Chitwan in Nepal.
We needed to make gaskets for the rope pump so we used a 1/2 inch pipe (with sharped edges) to punch out small rubber “gaskets.” It was tedious (and painful) work but we took turns and cut out over 100 gaskets for the pump.
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