Summary: Our Community Water Filtration System in Western Uganda--co-sponsored by SARS and WorldHope Corps-- has been stalled due to an equipment breakdown and the need for an adequate generator in the rural trading center of Katira (with a population of over 5,000 families without clean water or electricity). Although a new pump (the third pump since we opened the water store) was supplied by donors several months ago, and other repairs were made, we still need a generator with enough capacity to pump water for the entire community. Our Water Store is currently closed as we await a solution to the problem. We have already invested over $30,000 in this project over the past three years, and it looks like another $5,000 is needed this year. Here is Brother Julius’s project update and plea for help: I must state that am sorry for the long silence. However it was not deliberate because the state in which we are in is the worst ever. ...
Project Updates and Reflections by Michael J. Christensen, Director