A visit to Myanmar_the first story

I can have a feeling that spring is coming!

Some of our staff members went to Myanmar for a week with Yaksu-dong Seong-gyeol church.

Yaksu-dong Seong-gyeol church supplied Wellspring to overseas mission field as a commemoration business of their sixtieth founding anniversary in 2015.

 

 

 

Not only supplies of Wellspring, pastor and other church members of Yaksu-dong Seong-gyeol church visited mission field in Myanmar to demonstrate installation of Wellspring.

 

We are very glad we could have a chance to do with them.

The places we visited were seven local churches and one center for mission in center and suburbs of Yangon which is the capital of Myanmar.

Now, Myanmar is in a dry season.

In rainy season, save for well-maintained roads in downtown, all the roads turn into mire.

Below is a picture of a well which contains water for living. General houses in the areas away from cities, draw water from a well.

As you can see they pump up underground water and put the water into an open water tank which was built with cement. 

 

 

The water is dirty enough to see with the naked eye.

The water is pumped at a depth of about 10m~40m.

Considering drinking water should be pumped at least 100m depth, 10m~40m is too low to pump water to have drinking water.

Larva of mosquitos and foreign substances were visible to the naked eye.

Of course, people do not drink this water straight, they use the water for laundry, cleaning, dish-washing and when they washing their face.

Then how they do with drinking water?

They buy water like below picture to drink.

 

 

 

 

Water varies vastly in price and taste.

But those water seem to be only drinking water in Myanmar considering that there are no water purifiers in the area.

Please visit again, as we will keep posting about installation of Wellspring in Myanmar!

Cheers!