From @mmm_water ... "What are the Field Officers up to?"

Sharing the love of Jesus by providing safe, clean, sustainable sources of drinking water to the extreme poor in sub-Saharan Africa, Marion Medical Mission is one of our mission partners at Grace Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas, and we STRONGLY encourage you to read the following to learn more about - and pray for! - their mission.

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What are the Field Officers up to?

Many water organizations do provide clean drinking water, but maintaining the wells after they are built is something most find difficult to achieve. Marion Medical Mission has a maintenance system in place that works. The key to the maintenance system is building a well the village communities know how to maintain and can afford to maintain.

Marion Medical Mission has 21 Field Officers, each living in an area covering roughly 3,000 square miles. The MMM functionality monitoring system enables the Field Officers to oversee the functionality and maintenance of the wells in each area.

Each year, the Field Officers visit a stratified random sample of 100 wells from among the 1,000-2,000 wells built in their area. This process is designed to give MMM and its donors a documented, objective estimate of the overall functionality of MMM wells.

MMM’s Functionality Monitoring System also detects problems providing a way to initiate corrective action. If the Field Officer observes construction and siting issues, the names of the builder and supervisor for that well are recorded in the database so the Field Officer can work with them to improve performance.

The Field Officer inspects each of the 100 stratified random sample wells and interviews the community, filling a detailed survey questionnaire on the Android Tablet about all aspects of the well’s functionality, including the condition of the structure and the pump, the quantity and quality of water, and the well’s recent maintenance history. In addition to the GPS coordinates, the Field Officer also takes a photo of the well to visually record its current condition. If there are maintenance issues with the pump or structure, these will be discussed with community leaders, the local Zone Management Team, and the maintenance people, to encourage and enable better performance.

Each of the four MMM program areas in Northern Malawi, Central Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia has the equipment and software to take the survey information from the Androids and convert it into usable spreadsheet form.

Our goal is to provide safe, sustainable, sources of clean drinking water that will meet the villagers’ needs, not just the year the well is built, but indefinitely. Join us!

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