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This marks the second grant of its kind for Georgia water wells.

Clean, accessible water — one of life’s basic necessities — saves lives around the world, but in some regions, including Africa, the Caribbean, Central America and South America, villagers walk miles to collect water from a potentially contaminated source. Missionaries improve the villagers’ quality of life by drilling community water wells.

Bess, Piglet and I recently formed a non-profit business, Ground Water International Solutions, to generate funds to purchase equipment, refurbish it and send it with the expertise to teach people in developing countries to drill water wells properly.

For many years, I traveled the world teaching water well drilling and now our son Chris (known as “Piglet”) continues in my footsteps.

More than 600 million people around the world lack improved drinking water sources, according to a June 2015 UNICEF and World Health Organization (WHO) report on sanitation and drinking water.

Wells of Life's first-ever well that honors the victims of Sept. 11, 2001.