Well provided to communities in Rakai District

The region around Pastor Alex’s church is arid, and working wells are few and far between. Friends of Nexus Seminary and Soul Fishing Ministries provided funds to dig a well to serve the communities of Kyabigondo and Kachwampale. A local church is hosting the well to help foster community support. Before digging this well, the community got water from a local swamp. Surface water supplies are unprotected and contribute to illness and disease.

Pastor with ministers in front of church in Uganda
Host church for the new well
Pastor with Ministers at the site of a latrine for the church under construction
Pastor and ministers

Rock was encountered in the digging of the well, which will be put to use in construction projects, including a latrine at the church.

Well site with well head and stone from digging the well shaft.
Rock excavated from the well shaft
Men assembling pipes for well shaft.
Readying the well pipes
Men assembling pipes for well
Assembling the well pipes
Men inserting pipes into the well shaft

The well head is sealed with concrete to prevent contamination, and a hand pump is used to draw the water up the pipe.

Men completing the well pump.
Assembling the pump
Men installing the pump handle on the water well.
Installing the pump handle
Drawing the first water from the well.
Clean water!

The local community is instructed in the use of the well by Pastor Alex as he blesses it.

Pastor praying with community members at the newly commissioned water well.
Community members lined up to use the new water well.

Four hundred persons from each community now have access to clean water, thanks to the generosity of donors to Friends of Nexus. As more funds become available, more wells will be provided, improving the lives of hundreds more people.

Woman pumping water from the new well while a man waits.

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