water, and make a little profit.
Oklahoma State University Engineers without Borders are building a water purifier filter as they teach Santos, (Alfredo's brother), how to make one. The goal is for Santos to make them for his fellow villagers; help them get clean water, and make a little profit. Making water filters in El Sauce and then testing the water samples in the mission center.
Cheryl and I got back to Honduras last Friday with literally just a few hours before the Oklahoma State University Engineers Without Borders team arrived on Saturday. We finished grocery shopping on the way home from the airport and our workers were kind enough to work overtime in order to help us unload the bus when we got home. The OSU group got here at midday on Saturday and spent the rest of the day getting oriented and settled. On Sunday morning we took them on a long hike through Sies de Mayo and the countryside and on to the river to give them an idea of the area their work will impact. In the afternoon we had church and an excellent message by Selvin, especially to the students.
Monday morning the students divided into 3 groups. One group went to the private school and began what will become an education program for teaching parents and students the great importance of clean water. Another group began to assemble the tools and devices that will be needed to build the filters. The third group took water samples from many of the houses in Seis that have filters. While all of that was going on, a large crowd was amassing outside our gate in anticipation of the Children’s Christmas gift distribution. Cheryl started by having the guards permit only a few at a time in the compound to keep the crowd controlled. When the OSU students returned to the mission center, they all helped distribute the Christmas gifts to Seis de Mayo children. Nearly seven hundred gifts were distributed that morning. After lunch, the OSU students all chipped in to pack the truck and the bus with 350 gifts and headed to El Sauce; and by the end of the day nearly all of the 1000 gifts had been distributed. Cheryl will have to make some more gifts yet for those who did not receive one. Today was torrential rain and high wind. However the team still got the build site established in El Sauce and built the first filter. |