U.S. drilling industry members and two Christian charities donated equipment, supplies and expertise last May to rehabilitate and return a partially-blocked primary water well to full-capacity in Sendafa, Ethiopia. The well and its water are vital to the water quantity, health and wellbeing of Sendafa’s 15,000 residents.
The non-denominational, Living Word Community Church (LWCC), Red Lion, Pa., funded the $45,000 (U.S.) venture, which would have cost upwards of $65,000 without donations of supplies and expertise from the project’s drilling industry donors. It was the first environmentally-friendly treatment of a mineral-blocked well in Ethiopia and possibly the first water well rehabilitation project of its kind in Africa, according to Ethiopian officials.