How Hot is it? We've got more wells...

I don’t think I’ve been this hot in my life. It is easy to understand why people need water on a HOT DAY like today. It is so hot that my feet want air conditioned shoes. It is so hot today that you can cook an egg in the shade on the rocks. Imagine your brain is that egg. That is how hot it is today.

Rotary Matching Grant 65414 is digging wells all over the Upper East Region. I can testify to that as well. Three cities are getting two or three wells, but the rest are spread out in different counties (districts) in the Upper East Region. (We also have wells and boreholes going into the Brong Ahafo two states away.) Some of the communities with new wells don’t have a road near their community. Some of the wells don’t even have a good goat trail. Some of the roads have a bolder field in the middle of the road. The road starts again after the bolder field. I can guarantee you that these communities need water. The common theme was to thank us for helping provide water, and then to quickly to plead for more wells and more water.

The partnership with Pastor Emmanuel Atia and Rotary is a good one. He is putting miles on his pickup truck to check on the wells. We’ve hit rock on a couple of wells. One well was rock from two feet to twenty-two feet. They hit a bolder which will need to be dynamited before they can dig some more. That community needs that well.

I am tired, but excited about the number of lives that will be touched with all of the partnerships within Rotary and with our strong relationships with inspiring people like Jim Niquette at the Carter Center and Pastor Atia at the Bolgatanga Assemblies of God.

We were given a dozen eggs to thank Rotary for one of the wells by a woman wearing a Rotary Polio Plus shirt. We’ve also received three baskets from the women near one of the wells at the Nyariga-Doone Mother’s Club or Women’s Center. Another woman gave me about twenty cents to say thanks.

We are three hours south of the northern border of Ghana now. I’ll share about the church construction on our next email. We are flying Antrak Airlines on Thursday to return to the capital city of Accra. We will fly early on Friday on Delta to New York City, but I probably won’t get home until close to midnight. So, it will take three days of traveling to make it home for Easter.