Check out the slideshow at right, and the captions for a quick overview of our first site visit. Mark Wright collected Harlon Mills and Dave Parks (LWW, Tennessee) at the airport, then we joined Dominique, our able interpreter. One more stop to pick up Pastor Fernando from his church in the city to take just over an hour's ride out into the country through mountain roads to the little Presbyterian Church in the tiny community of Quebrada Grande. Pastor Enrique Ochoa met us there. Once we explained (through Dominique and Rev. Mark) that we were there to speak about water, he whipped out his cell phone and called the president of the community water committee, who appeared with his son within minutes.
Although the community does have some issues with water-related illnesses, it seems that they are still way ahead of most of the communities that need our help. Since they have running water (most of the time) and since it is treated to some degree, it is unlikely that LWW will seem like a good idea to them. Although the folks we met with were very nice, and we went through the Water Issues Survey carefully, this community does not seem high on the list of probable successful partners.
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