A good first full day!

Upon arriving at the church in Mazatenango, our installation and education crews got to work in short order.

Everything looked ready to go in the room to house the water system, save a few manageable details. There was a nice, clean board to hold all of the components, a sink nearby to fill water bottles, and a 300 gallon tank on the roof for the cleaned water. Fred, Linda and Sally made significant headway, installing most of the main components, and getting ready to finish the next day.

Sally, Fred, Lorena (translator) and Linda, working to prepare the clean water tank.

Fred and Linda mounting the Ozinator on the system board.

Fred, Linda and Sally share a conversation about the water system with Pastor Roberto and his children.

The Education group had 28 seven year old girls and three teachers for training. It was a great morning of lessons, songs and crafts designed to teach us about germs, clean water and good hygiene. One of the highlights was to create a banner with hand prints from all teachers, both Living Waters teams, and students, which will be hung in their church during our water system celebration. Another craft was for the children to form their very own 'germs' from Play-Doh, name them, and share what they did in the body. In the afternoon, Jean sat down with the teachers to train them how to teach the lessons, themselves. This is a key part of the Living Waters model, as we are to work with our partners to allow them to teach and learn day to day, long after we have left their land.

Alejandro helps one of our students place hand prints on a banner.

Jean trains the trainers so they can teach the children about clean water and good hygiene.