Kay Angel

TUESDAY MAY 3RD

After a lot of preparation and planning we finally really started the work on our new land today.When I woke up at 6 AM this morning I could hardly believe it is finally all really happening. It was a very special feeling of joy, relieve and of-course anticipation as well, since the next 6 to 8 months will be very intense for me.

Our site manager Frantz Pierre Louis, who just finished up a beautiful project for Operation USA, Ecole Nationale Jacob Martin Henriquez, cleared our private access road to Sacrifice with the borrowed backhoe from Calvary Chapel so that the big trucks from “Water for Life” were able to drive directly on the land. Our project, as it happens, starts with drilling our own water-well so that we always will have water, “Water for Life”, “Dlo pou lavi”.

At the same time a team of locally hired workers started to clear our property lines from vegetation, so that we can prepare for placing our locally made fence. The philosophy of Kay Angel is to hire local wherever possible within our project to stimulate the local economy. Our future neighbors are very happy with us, since they found some work with us.

The big truck with the drill drives up Sacrifice. The chosen spot for our first attempt to find water is all the way at the top, so that we will save energy later with pumping the water into our system, gravity will do a lot of the work.

The 2nd truck with all the materials like the big PVC pipes that will go into the ground follows.

Drilling through a layer of white sand

In the distance we see a big rain approaching us. The view at Sacrifice is really breathtaking.

Drilling through a layer of very watery orange mud.

It was a beautiful sight to see this huge drill on our land. The drilling took up to several hours, but at a depth of 140 feet we already found water. And not just a little bit, we found 20 gallons per minute. That really exceeded all our expectations.

As if we were getting a blessing from above it started to pour the moment we found water. Everybody ran for cover in or under the trucks, except for Troy the driller, he continued to work, because in order to insure the quality of your well you always need to drill a little deeper after you find water.

After 20 minutes or so the rain had passed and the PVC pipes were lowered into the well.

For now the pipe will just sit likes this, covered with heavy tape. Now that we know how much water we found we can order the right pump for it. At a later time that pump will be installed.

Today was a beautiful day for me, a successful 1st attempt to find water resulted in a great 20 gallons a minute. The big rain was a beautiful omen to me that this land is truly blessed and that a beautiful future awaits the children of Kay Angel here.