We were pleasantly surprised the first week with our friends from Bogota and Medellin who came and stayed with us at the house. We all met the first day and went to the island in the boat.
Juan Bastidas has visited and worked with some young guys on the island. It was great to meet up with him and have mutual encouragement in what he loves to do and see it in action.
Yaiker, Juan, and Papuo are three young men he spent time with this week. He has a great servant's heart as well, during the week he helped out with whatever was needed including photography and filters.
Migue and Elizabeth are from Medellin and have worked with us for a long time as well. They sponsor many filters with their program and also do video and photography testimonials and stories. We spent time visiting previous homes and seeing how they are using the filters as well as installing new ones.
Luis, Juan, and I also went to another village to check on a filter that we had installed two years ago. We were happy to see that it is used all the time. We taught them how to clean the filter, and they are set for another long period of time.
We have been very happy with this filtering system. In all the places we stopped we were able to drink the water without the bad side affects that are present in the untreated water. For the price of the filter, it is the best system available. It can treat all the water a family needs in a day. There are other systems available, but they can't treat the amount of water these can for the price. A family should use potable water for all aspects of daily living, cooking, bathing, cleaning, drinking, etc.. Most systems only treat enough water for a couple of people to drink a day. Our family used this system for our time there in Bocachica, as well as for hospitality to others when they visited. No one got sick with water-borne illness when using the bio-sand filters.
There is no potable water on the island and the water is stored and transported in unsanitary ways:
Below is a collection of pictures showing all the activity:
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| These are the kids that will be benefiting from a new filter |
Installing a new filter
Pictures from Recreo including a video of the river ride.
This is how the water starts. It is treated with a de-sedimentation powder and then ran through the filter. The water tasted great afterward!
Some of the locals worked on more filters the following week with Luis.
This is the one at our house that we drank from.
We are thankful for the work we accomplished in this short amount of time, and we are thankful for all those who support this work.
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