08 Mar 2015 Drilling a Borehole
Prior to drilling a well, a survey must be completed to discern the optimal place to hit water. There are a few different ways to do that. One, that has...
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08 Nov 2014 Sigagule Food Station Gets Water!
On October 29, 2014, the final installation on the Sigagule Food Station's borehole was completed and for the first time, the children supported by the station have access to fresh,...
25 Aug 2014 South Africa Trip – Fourth Installment
This was an exciting, productive, and informative week for A Spring of Hope. We drilled at our 25th partner school on Tuesday and located water at 150 meters. The teachers at...
20 Aug 2014 South Africa Trip – Third Installment
Tsakelani Creche Our work on the ground in South Africa continues. Yesterday, we started the day visiting Tsakelani Creche in Burlington where we brought pillows, blankets and other items for the...
13 Aug 2014 Visiting Welverdiend
At the start of the week, we visited more of our partner schools in Welverdiend. Mtembeni Primary Our first stop was to visit with the learners at Mtembeni Primary, where we drilled...
28 Jul 2014 Water at White Lion School of Hope!
ASoH is very happy to report that our driller's rig is fixed, and as if in celebration, we hit water at 90 meters at the White Lion School of Hope...
26 Jul 2014 South Africa Trip – Second Installment
We had a minor setback in the drilling of the wells at our new partner schools when our driller's rig broke down. While we wait for it to be fixed,...
03 Aug 2013 The Girls are Back in Town
In the Shangaan communities, young girls and boys are often sent to "bush schools," to undergo a highly-regarded rite of passage into womanhood and manhood. The initiates disappear into the...