On Monday we toured the offices of our Benin partner, Mission Soliel d’Espoire, or MSE. We met the energetic staff. Many seem so young!
The office includes audio and video studios.
The main event of the day was a drive over a notably bad road for about 2 hours each direction. This took us to a community called Winra Camp Peulh. Peulh is the French word for a people group called Fulani, who are spread across much of this part of Africa.
The people were so happy to see us, and so very grateful for the well. I asked how far people used to walk for water and the women said they used to get up at 3:00 amand carry a torch, maybe 3 miles to get swamp water!
This is the pastor, his wife, and their son Aquiles. The pastor has 4 churches around this area, and Aquiles enjoying some gummy bears we brought to share.
It is great to see how polished the handle is in this. It shows how much it is used every day.
Honoré and the well, with a bible verse on top.
Water spilled in the well area drains to this basin for animals to drink.
That's cool the extra spilled water is even used for the animals!!
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