ZEELAND—
Jim Mohney drills and repairs wells.In West Michigan, he'd be just another contractor. But in Haiti, he's a miracle worker, working with a team that provides water to a country that desperately needs it.
And that was before the earthquake.
Jim wasn't in Port-au-Prince when the quake hit. He was a couple hundred miles away.
Jim and his wife Jodi work for Living Water International, based in Houston. The Mohney's work out of an office in Zeeland.
They set up training camps that teach Haitians how to drill their own wells.
There's little plumbing infrastructure, just individual wells.
"Living Water International is not the first wave, we're the second wave," said Jodi Mohney. "We're the second wave coming in and we're going to rebuild these communities by beginning with their water source."
In the last three years, they've repaired about 350 pumps across Haiti. That's water for a half a million people.
But after last Tuesday, the Mohneys now say their work's just begun.
Everything in the country comes through Port-au-Prince, the center of the disaster.
"Our biggest concern is being able to get fuel to travel," said Jim. "If we can't get fuel to travel, then we can't bring our supplies out to the sites."
If you're interested in helping out, they are encouraging people to give financially. They already have trained crews on the ground in country.
Jim will return to Haiti on the 31st of January.
