In January 2009 I was contacted by Hunter Chapman, a young man from Waco, Texas interested in helping out in a village in the Sierra Madres Mountains of Mexico. He was wanting to do a water
project in order to earn his Eagle Scout merit badge. Since we have been wanting to improve the water situation for the albergue in the village of Apachochi, I though this would be the perfect opportunity. Hunter began making plans to bring a
group down to Creel for the month of July 2009. He had to raise all the funds to build the water system himself. Special thanks go out to the Northwest Waco Rotary Club for helping him with this project.
Above to the left Ben and Hunter are working with water pipe while to the right the base for the upper tank is being completed.
To the left Hunter and I filling are filling the upper tank with water. To the right the team is digging a 300 meter trench down to the village.
The lower base will provide a central point in the village for everyone to come and fill their water containers and wash clothes. Upper right you can see some of the team from Pocatello
Calvary Chapel who stopped by to help out with this project.
The last day that the group was there they fed the people of the village a dinner of spaghetti, beans and tortillas. To the right Hunter is presenting the village a plaque recognizing one
of the donors of this water project.
The village school (albergue) now has clean, hot and cold, high pressure / high volume water for the showers, kitchen and an outdoor location for the local families to wash clothes and
fill drinking water containers.
In addition to the water system, the group also installed sinks in the bathrooms and kitchen along with wood burning water heaters to provide hot water for the showers and the kitchen.
