At 2:17, JUNE 11th, 2008, the Meshenani Borehole was born.

Dear friends, you have to know what went into this to appreciate what came out. So do the urgent things, clear your desk, then take a few minutes to read our story.

We started out drilling at Meshenani on Thursday, June 5 th , with high expectations. The community all came out to the site to watch, pray, provide tea and meat, be on hand for everything. On the second day we expected we’d reach water bearing layers and invited the school children to come and watch. We bought sodas and sweets for the celebration. The school kids prepared songs to sing and signs to hold “Water is life – for people and animals”, “God Bless Joyce and Water is Life”. They waited patiently under the big acacia tree, occasionally getting up and roaring around, eventually getting used to the NOISE made by the drilling machine.

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