Visitors to Pilgrim's Presence drive one full day to arrive at this valley.  Driving another half day through real four wheel country, one arrives at Kiwawa and Pilgrim's Presence.  From the lodge one can see the border of Uganda.

The church building at Pilgrim's Presence is a roomy, well built structure.  Bible classes are held daily and services twice a week.

Pilgrim's Presence medical clinic is the only facility in a very large region of northwest Kenya.  Here the staff poses on the front porch. 

A corn mill, located in the neighboring village of Paracore.

Paracore now has clean, deep well water because the woman of the village saw the windmill and well at Kiwawa.  The presence of a well would end the daily four to five hour routine of gather water from dry river beds. 

The women of the village raised and butchered  goats to sell to neighboring villages.  After some time they had enough money to buy a corn mill so they could add ground corn to their items for sale.

After some years of butchering, grinding and saving, the women of Paracore approached Pilgrim's Presence asking for assistance.  The women had saved more than two thirds of the thirty thousand dollars (U.S.) it would take to drill a well and erect a windmill.

Thanks to your contributions and the hard work of the women of Paracore, the men, women and children, (not to mention the cattle) have clean, parasite free drinking and cooking water.

Every year, more than five thousand children die form drinking contaminated water.  Tens of thousands more suffer life long effects from contaminated water.

Travelers were told this story under a Sycamore tree on the bed on a dried up river.  The woman who told the story of the well, informed the travelers that the recent drought was so bad that their corn reserves were gone and the women had no seed for next year's crop.

Your funding provided seed for the village of Paracore and another years supply of food.

When the seed arrived, the women gathered and this picture of the event was sent to the Missionary Society as a thank you for helping them help themselves.

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