We hope this letter finds you and your family safe and healthy. I’m almost reluctant to share with you what is happening in Bolivia because I know so many of you must be suffering during these days of the COVID pandemic and social unrest. We are glad to hear that the economy is opening back […]
The rains seem to be diminishing and the flood waters are finally beginning to recede. Now comes the time for clean-up. As you can see in the photo, mud is everywhere. There is more than a meter of sediment in some houses. Health officials are seeing a rise in water-borne diseases as many families are returning […]
Last week Paulo and I (Danny) returned to Beni with 80 more Sawyer filters. From Trinidad we flew in a small plane to San Borja, a town of 42,000 that has been cut off from the rest of Bolivia by the flooding. The Maniqui River, overflowed its banks and threatened to flood the town. It […]
We send out a big THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed to our campaign to provide Sawyer water filters to the thousands of victims of the flooding in eastern Bolivia in 2014. So many of you have partnered with us in this effort of love, but we are still about $32,000 short of our […]
Marcos and I sent two full days on the Mamore River with a consortium of churches and with Samaritan’s Purse delivering food and Sawyer water filters to 50 families in five communities. The flood waters have completely covered all land within thousands of square miles. Many people have of course chosen to leave their communities until […]
Today we traveled 10 kilometers outside of town to a tent city called “Puerto Almacen” where more than 250 displaced families are literally living on the highway. These families have been forced from their homes by the water and the only high ground for miles around is on the raised bed of the highway. We […]
We are sending a BIG “thank you” to everyone who has so graciously contributed in our effort to be Christ’s “hands and feet” during this crisis, providing clean water to so many suffering people. After two days of travel (and the minor distractions of break-downs, rain, and mud), Agua Yaku arrived in Trinidad with 200 […]
On Facebook, Tara Swanepoel shared the following story along with a plea for prayers. We in Agua Yaku are trying hard to get up to Trinidad and distribute the Sawyer filters, but on Friday the levees broke and the city flooded. We are waiting on the direction of the pastors of First Baptist of Santa […]
Recap: Bolivia has received three times the normal amount of rain this year, resulting in extreme flooding in the eastern lowland departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, Cochabamba, and Pando. 60,000 families are homeless, 55 people have drowned, 50,000 head of livestock have perished. Pictures speak a 1000 words, so below you will find recent media […]
In the last four days $US 14,900 has been pledged to purchase Sawyer water filters for victims of recent flooding in Bolivia. This is enough to provide filters for 186 families who have lost their homes and are desperately in need safe clean drinking water. Our goal it to provide 1000 filters to flood victims. […]