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Since our last report, SevaChild International has drilled another 36 wells that are delivering clean, fresh, safe water to hundreds and hundreds of individuals in the Indian state of Odisha.  The villages in which we are installing water wells are some of the poorest in the entire country; in fact, some of these villages represent leper colonies whose residents don't even have any means of support.

Prior to the advent of wells that supply potable water, villagers were acquiring their water supply by digging holes in the ground until water appeared.  As if that weren't bad enough, it was necessary to allow the water to sit for a minimum of 24 hours so as to let the agitated dirt sink to the bottom of the hole.  The water was contaminated, not only by poisonous insects, but by pathogens resulting from animals utilizing the same source.

Thanks to SevaChild's efforts, village residents now have access to water that will no longer sicken -- and even kill -- so many of them.  In the leper colonies, where many residents cannot operate a water pump due to side effects of their disease, electric pumps are delivering the life-sustaining natural resource in question.

The average person cannot survive for more than five days without water.  We continue to do everything we can to ensure that such a consideration is never part of the equation in these remote rural enclaves of Odisha, India.

When I asked the people of Mundaguda village what life was like before they received a water well, I learned that for as long as they could remember they had dug holes in the ground until water appeared – after which they would cover the water to allow the dirt they stirred up to sink to the bottom. They had to wait for 24 hours before they could drink the water – and always with the risk that the water was contaminated with pathogens from animals that drank from the same water hole and poisonous insects.  But today they have access to clean water 24/7 from a well we constructed right in their village, disease from contaminated water is a thing of the past, and their children are thriving. All this was made possible by donations from people just like you.