LINKS TRIPS
programme. Again, some more communal water filters were given and recipients were shown how to set them up.
the teaching and group discussions challenging - especially when the afternoon’s pouring rain seemed to double the number of bodies crowded in to the small church building! As well as problems related to safe water, nutrition was identified as another priority, so it was covered in the afternoon’s
On the Sunday, the team members split up to visit two different churches in Mbula and Apokor, meeting up for lunch at Mbula before heading back to Wellspring. Little did they know that the Wellspring Community Neighbourhood event being held in the team’s honour that evening had ‘the muzungus’ (our team members) down to be part of the entertainment! For the last two days, the team visited some local projects including an affordable housing development that is being built on land which Links has helped to fund, a solar lighting pilot and a business proposal for the production of fruit juice that can be frozen and given to the children in Wellspring’s school. One final visit the team made was to a family with a child who is severely affected by hydrocephalus and another with twin girls of 18 months old who were living in horrendous conditions.
From here, they went straight on to a communal, grassy area to deliver more healthcare teaching on hygiene. The stark reality of the living conditions and the challenges villagers face when trying to practise what they hear from our teams were very apparent. If you would like to join a Links team on a trip next year, please keep looking at our website. Details are posted as they become available. We do hope you can join us one day!
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