Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

This last week I got a chance to visit a site where USAID and various charities had put in a solar water pump system in a community.  The system was put in roughly two years ago and quit working several months ago.  I was going to see if I could find out what was wrong with the system.  My expectations on the system were that it would be a fairly simple system with a solar system set up to power a standard pump drawing water from one of the hand dug wells this community has an abundance of.   What I found when I got there was anything but.  It was an expensive, very advanced system that used four solar panels generating over 100 watts each to an electrical box that was connected to a computer chip controlling a sleeve pump that was inside a bored well.  The well was bored to 65 meters.  Feeling inadequate to fix this was an understatement. I did test the things I could and found it was in the control of the pump where the problem was.  ...

First in no way am I comparing this weeks work of lighting up the medical clinic to God creating the Sun-just thought I should clarify that. Lights on in the building at early dusk I am currently back in Singida in the comfort of my hotel room and real shower enjoying a few days in which I hope this old back of mine will straighten back out.  Nothing like being curled up in the outer edges of the attic space where there is normally only about 2 feet between ceiling and roof.  Especially since it got hot this week finally.  Normally back home I would relax in a tub of hot water to loosen the muscles back up especially where I had the back surgery.  While I am blessed to have more here than most I am still not quite so blessed as I was at home and a week like this reminds of some of that. But onto the week at hand.  When I got to site I was informed the power had quite a day or so after I left the site last weekend.  A quick check and I found out seve...