Project 6 - Water Well for El Triunfo:

Goal: The Global Mission Team (GMT) hopes to work with Rotary Clubs International and have a water well drilled and a pumping system for the community known as El Triunfo, Peru. The goal is to have it operational sometime in 2008.

El Triunfo is a community located in the jungle about 30 miles south of Iquitos, Peru. The Lutheran Church in Peru has established a “Community of Faith” here through the work of former missionary Katharine Bergbusch. It’s an extremely poor area and people here live primitively in thatched-roof houses. Infant mortality and illness from water-born diseases are very high since they have no way to obtain clean drinking water. The water they use is from the river (over a half-mile away) and not fit for consumption. The only well they have is privately owned and heavily contaminated. For more information about this project email Jim Young.

Status Updates:

• Feb 15, 2008 Update:
  Construction of the water well has begun and most of the work was completed on Feb 15th. The first fresh water has been deliver. Click Here to see PowerPoint slide show.
• Jan 15, 2008 Update:
  The needed funds have now been secured by the Canadian Mission Teams in Stratford, Ontario; St. Paul's Lutheran in Maple Ridge, British Columbia; The Rotary Clubs of Chilliwack, British Columbia and Redding California; The Global Mission Team of the Texas Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod, Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church in The Woodlands, Texas and Living Word Lutheran in Katy, Texas. The Rotary Club Iquitos will lead the engineering of the project and when the children of El Triunfo start their classes in March they will have clean drinking water.
  

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