David Kopp

💧 Chizani Village in Malawi was the first well our donors ever funded. Sixteen people gave, and some gifts were $50. Jenda Village is just $2,015 away from the same thing! Help finish it → waterofmercy.com/products/je… Before: families in Chizani knelt at muddy, hand-dug pools to scoop up cloudy water in whatever containers they had. After: a well in the village for 500 people and their primary school. The crew struck water at 30 meters, kept drilling to 60, and worked into the night to finish it in a single day. Father Petros came to bless it. That is what a few people giving together can do. Jenda's 600 people are next, and they are close. Thank you to @fr_petros for his excellent work on the ground in Malawi. None of this would happen without him 🙏 Jenda Village is $2,015 from clean water for 600 people. A $25 gift brings clean water to nearly three people for 75 years. 👉 Help finish Jenda → waterofmercy.com/products/je… Read the full Chizani story → waterofmercy.com/blogs/news/… @fr_petros @SrZanga @SrNkhoma40444 @Evakk489336 @j_paschen @JlneJo @EdwardJonesNYC @Koppernicus @martay88_ @JeniferEri83011 @Ectobass @Kawen16 @smendesbrito @alejandros923 @WWLC #WaterOfMercy #CleanWater #Catholic #Malawi #DivineMercy

💧 Thoza Village in Malawi has struck water, and Father Petros reports plenty of it. Jenda Village is just $2,075 away from the same thing. Help us finish it → waterofmercy.com/products/je… When the new borehole at Thoza Village was cleaned out, water and spray burst up beside the rig and ran across the red earth. The hand pump is in and the concrete pad built around it. The 450 people of Thoza have a well of their own. Until now, Thoza drank from a river that had dwindled to a chain of shallow, brown puddles in a bed of bare red earth. Women stepped down into the riverbed to fill their containers, and washed the family's clothes in the same water on the bank above. Livestock and wild animals drank there too, and cholera was a constant risk. Four gifts from parishioners of St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Gurnee, in the Archdiocese of Chicago, came together to fund this well. Thoza shares its river with Kapatamoto Chisi Village, and St. Paul parishioners are bringing a well to that village too. Thank you, St. Paul. Thoza is one of 39 wells now flowing in Malawi. Thanks be to God. Thank you to @fr_petros for his excellent work on the ground in Malawi. None of this would happen without him 🙏 Jenda Village is $2,075 from clean water for 600 people. A $25 gift brings clean water to nearly three people for 75 years. 👉 Help finish Jenda → waterofmercy.com/products/je… Read the full Thoza story → waterofmercy.com/blogs/news/… @fr_petros @SrZanga @SrNkhoma40444 @Evakk489336 @j_paschen @JlneJo @EdwardJonesNYC @Koppernicus @martay88_ @JeniferEri83011 @Ectobass @Kawen16 @smendesbrito @alejandros923 @WWLC #WaterOfMercy #CleanWater #Catholic #Malawi #DivineMercy

💧 Kamatawo Village, Malawi: the before and after. Before: everything they drank came from dirty open pits and a muddy seasonal wetland. Women and children carried the water home on their heads along a red dirt path, even the smallest with a container of their own. After: a well in the village, with a hand pump, a concrete pad and a spillway, for 750 people and the children of their primary school. A gift from the parishioners of St. John Cantius in Chicago, through the Archdiocese of Chicago 2026 Mission Appeal. Thank you. Thanks be to God. Thank you to @fr_petros for his amazing work on the ground in Malawi. 🙏 Read the full story → waterofmercy.com/blogs/news/… Help us fund the next village. This problem is easy to solve, and you can be part of it → 👉 Jenda Village → waterofmercy.com/products/je… 👉 Makunkha Village → waterofmercy.com/products/ma… @fr_petros @SrZanga @SrNkhoma40444 @Evakk489336 @j_paschen @JlneJo @EdwardJonesNYC @Koppernicus @martay88_ @JeniferEri83011 @Ectobass @Kawen16 @smendesbrito @alejandros923 @WWLC #WaterOfMercy #CleanWater #Catholic #Malawi #DivineMercy