Borehole Completed in Remote Zambia!
Updated October 13, 2016
Finally, we have a photo of the borehole sign placed at the location of the borehole in remote Mufumbwe, Zambia for the Chilemo Orphans Club directed by Joseph Kapatula. Derrick and Cherry Pringle were out here in recently and finally placed the sign. For us it's been a very happy story ending with a community borehole in a location where we had trouble even bringing in drilling equipment and finding water. The story began with a need for fresh water for the orphans and the community and having everyone focus on making it happen. It finally did.
You can read below the story about the borehole. Again, we thank the Vladimir and Oksana Badaliy family in Portland, OR for providing the $8000 in funding. The total time of completion of the project took one and a half years. Below are staff members of Chilemo Orphan's Club with director Joseph Kapatula on the left.
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Updated August 21, 2016
The borehole is serving the Chilemo Orphans Club run by Joseph Kapatula. It serves the general community with fresh drinkable water...a much needed service for this community. LifeNets applauds the donors and all those on site who have made this happen. Below is the sign from the Badaliy family of the Home of God church in Portland, Oregon.
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Derrick and Cherry Pringle hold up the sign that was taken out to the borehole site in Mufumbwe. We applaud everyone who has brought this project to completion and great outcomes for an orphanage and community. |
Posted September 27, 2015
LifeNets is pleased to announce that a MUCH NEEDED borehole to serve an orphanage and a community was finally completed in remote Mufumbwe, Zambia in early September 2015.
Mufumbwe is nestled in northwest Zambia near the border of Portuguese speaking Angola and French-speaking Democratic Re pubic of the Congo. We have been working with a dedicated, principled group of Christians who have remained faithful to their beliefs in spite of the fact that they have little contact with ministers and NO visits to the area. Derrick and Cherry Pringle from Kitwe are the first ones to have visited them. That is a difficult 300 mile journey. My wife Beverly and I were privileged to visit them with the Pringles in April 2014, a visit we will never forget. See the complete story of our working here at http://lifenets.org/mufumbwe.
In October 2014 at the Feast of Tabernacles services in Redmond, Oregon we met Vladimir Badaliy who offered to finance a borehole in Africa. We decided that putting a borehole here where there are almost none would be a tremendous blessing. The borehole would have to be dug in winter, the dry season which in Zambia June through August.
We searched for drillers who would go to this area. To our dismay there were few who were even interested in going and quoted outrageous prices and terms to even go out there. Finally, towards the end of winter in August we were able to arrange with a driller to go out there for a reasonable price which included a hand pump. We also had to purchase the plot of land on which the borehole was drilled. The dimensions are 100 by 100 meters. The location was good right in the town of Mufumbwe.
Derrick Pringle writes to us on September 16::
"With only a hand pumps the water came out crystal clear. At the moment the pump is chained and locked until we can build a temporary dwelling for Christopher. He will cultivate a garden there and also supervise the correct use of the pump. I am pleased about that as I have great difficulty in communicating with him where he presently lives. I left cash with them to purchase cement and bricks for a waterway from the pump to a washing bay."
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A sign is being made to place on the well which will read:
"When drawing water, remember God’s Commandments"
Vladimir and Oksana Badaliy family
Portland, Oregon
August 2015
Derrick Pringle writes that conditions in Zambia are very gloomy, daily 6-8 hour power cuts are common and if the rains do not come soon there will be total black outs, mines retrenching and cutting contracts which is affecting everyone greatly. Predictions are that the Kwacha, the Zambian currency will drop K20 to the USD from about 7 to 1, the government cannot pay its external debts and so it goes on.
On a side note the orphanage has been able to make money selling chickens. On the insistence of Derrick, Joseph, the Chilemo Club Orphans directors has put up a chicken for sale sign on the roadside. He now has a constant stream of customers and the chickens are really looking good.