Honduras Safe Water Project with Jean Gray

Our program on May 3^rd was a presentation by our own member, Jean Gray, who talked about his experiences on a trip to Honduras. His trip was a “Safe Water Project”, and the full project will take three years. This particular project was being done jointly with World Vision.

 

The people of the village live in the town without any fresh water source; any water for drinking, bathing, or cooking. The village children had to climb to the top of a nearby mountain to get the family’s water for the day. The project was a simple one: a pipeline from a fresh spring on the nearby mountain to end in the city providing the first source of fresh water ever in the city. There was no need for a pump – just a gravity-driven pipeline to the newly-built city reservoir. All of the work was manual labor – no machinery was available.