El Pozo and friends build a well

Seven students and staff member Neal Baker from the Georgia Tech Christian Campus Fellowship flew to Puebla, Mexico, after Christmas to assist the CMF Globalscope El Pozo team with a water project.

Kami Burns, the El Pozo team leader and former CCF member in her own college days, set up the project in the village of La Trinidad with Living Water International. This organization helps provide clean water and hygiene education to people all over the world while also sharing the message of the “living water” available through Jesus Christ.

As Kami points out in her blog entry about the project, “In Mexico, we can’t drink tap water, so I’ve learned to always make sure we have bottled water in our house.” The people in small rural towns, however, don’t always have access to bottled water, nor the money to pay for it.

La Trinidad is in an arid climate with such a low water table that drilling another conventional well just isn’t an option. Most people have to use donkeys to haul several gallons of water at a time from a nearby operating well to their homes. So the El Pozo staff and students, the Georgia Tech group, and Living Water staffers worked together with some skilled masons to build a stone well around a natural spring. This will collect and hold clean water for the people of La Trinidad.

The project was a big success, says Kami. “I’m grateful to have been able to help provide water for these humble and grateful people, but my hope and prayer is that they also find living water in Jesus Christ.”