News Updates - Press Release
Here are summaries of recent events - May - June 2007
Rig & Truck in Amaigbo on Pilot Well Project
Our Rig & Water Service Truck now deployed on first deep Well Project in Amaigbo
Photo below Left: shows well drilled to over 300 feet in sedimentary formation with 15 rods of pipe and bit / sub adapter stuck from 100 feet down.
Photos Below: Water truck with some of the remaining 300 feet of pipes, and another view of the stuck set of pipes in first well, while RNM Gen. Manager, Oge' Florence Ochi-Okorie and Pyppa Johnson (visiting from Houston) ponders the challenges ahead for the drill crew.
Plan is to use a set of 50 ton jacks, drilling foam / air injection method to try and pull these rods out when the dry season sets in (October - Feb). Worse case - find an experienced dynamite user to blow out the bit and retrieve as much of the rods as possible. Meanwhile, a second hole / mud pit has been dug to start an alternate well ASAP to avoid the stand-off which has lasted from mid-March to late June 2007.
Photo below right: shows a prospective driller raise rig mast to set up for mock drilling during an interview session in June. Right: Cajetan and John - two of our 3 member crew - both have heavy automotive mechanics experience
Some 6 to 7 miles away from the new well location is the old Nwangele river - a stream that continue to get a lot of debris / dumps, yet very vital to the welfare and economic survival of thousands living in Amaigbo and its neighboring villages. Nwangele meanders through many towns and villages and is said to empty into Imo River. It badly needs to dredged right now.
Photo above: Shows the Nwangele River - the main surface water source for the people of Amaigbo town and parts of Eziama Obire, with a population in excess of over 40,000.
Outreach Continues despite these challenges or problems:
We also reached out to many needy families and widows in Orlu, Amaigbo, Aba, and Port Harcourt. From our supplies and items shipped in last November, we distributed several medical supplies, school books, gave away some equipment and computers to some organizations and micro-producers to help them thrive in their business endeavours.
Spring-Summer Mission 2008 Plan / Call for Volunteers
We now about 8 people interested in our next Mission trip in Spring (mid-March to early June) of 2008. It will be both a medical mission with at least 2 doctors / specialists on the team (possibly more), a drilling and vocational training outreach to several communities in Nigeria, and potentially Sierra Leone (not yet finalized).
If you are interested in going, or know someone who would like to join us, please contact us as soon as possible - we may limit the number to 12. To volunteer to go with us, you will need about $2200 for your round-trip air tickets into West Africa, and an additional $300 to $500 spending money for part of your living and incidental expense. For those who plan to cover a second country, please plan to spend an extra $350 for the round-trip fare between countries in West Africa and a couple of nights of hotel stay. Details will be available soon and published on our website as well.
You can support our efforts
How you can help... donate to help sustain our new Operators ($100 each per month for 3 crew members for about 6 months when we hope they would be self-sustaining from some of the commercial projects they execute to supplement our relief / charitable work). You may also donate towards a large capacity deep well (250 feet to 500 feet), or you may co-sponsor part of the cost. Typical cost of a deep well will run from $7,000 to about $25,000.
To donate Online, please use our Donation page, or simply send us a check for your desired level of contribution. May the Lord bless and reward you for you gift and labor of love.
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