Instead of going to the mountains, the beach or a fancy theme park, in May of this year, Jessica and Scott Schwieger took their family to some of the poorest villages in the impoverished nation of Zambia. Jessica and Scott knew it would be a different kind of vacation and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for their children, Arlie, Abe and John to…

…share in the joy of villagers’ singing, dancing, laughing and cheering as they watch water bubble up from freshly drilled wells to give them clean water for the first time EVER! During their family “vacation”, the Schwieger family participated in the drilling of wells that now serve thousands of Zambians.

…meet some of the thousands of villagers who no longer have to worry about water-borne diseases because they now have clean water from 200 wells drilled in Zambia since 2011.

…get to know the people who make it all happen. They met Shadreck Sibwaalu, the staff at the Namwianga Mission, the drilling crew, the newly assembled maintenance crew and the village water committees.

…help plan a new system for well maintenance and repair to keep these wells pumping clean water for years to come. The Schwiegers helped set up a parts warehouse and support system to help local villagers keep their own wells running by providing hard-to-source parts and skilled labor to perform the most difficult repairs.

As we ‘Zoom in on Zambia’ all this month, please consider picking up where the Schweigers left off and help keep the funding for these clean water projects going! A button to donate can be found at the top of this page.