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Water Is Life: MDC’s Clean Water Revolution in Maji

2025-11-24T16:34:55+00:00

In Maji, water doesn’t come from a tap. For many families, it comes from miles away—carried by women and young teens in heavy jerry cans, drawn from muddy spring pools that cattle also drink from. The contaminants especially threaten babies and the elderly, both under the care of women. But that changed for 7500 people—because of you. In 2018, when the only pump serving Maji town burned out, families had no choice but to return to open springs. The water was unsafe, and the burden fell—again—on women. MDC stepped in. With support from donors and collaborating with local officials, we restored [...]

Water Is Life: MDC’s Clean Water Revolution in Maji2025-11-24T16:34:55+00:00

Trip Report: May 2024

2025-11-24T16:34:56+00:00

In May, Chris Bounds, Charley Bounds, Rick Smith, and Tracy Sauerwein of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho traveled with me to Addis Ababa, Mizan, and Maji. The trip goals were: To have members observe and report back to Covenant PC on the work that MDC has accomplished To introduce CPC members to colleagues and collaborators of MDC To foster relationships between members of the Maji mother church and of Covenant Church To finalize the MoU with Solar Energy Foundation on collaboration in the future work of MDC To finalize the MoU with the Maji Presbytery for building and running women’s [...]

Trip Report: May 20242025-11-24T16:34:56+00:00

Thank you donors – Video

2025-11-24T16:34:56+00:00

Maji Development Coalition (MDC) is a small but mighty nonprofit. We are bringing safe water, solar power and women's development to a remote corner of rural Ethiopia. " We've brought solar lighting and phone charging to almost a 1,000 homes that were dark when the sun went down. We provided solar and gravity-fed safe water systems to almost 4,000 people. We solarized a hospital serving a population of 60,000 so it could open. Women's self-help groups are forming and starting to earn money for the participants. Our Ethiopian water engineer exclaimed, "You are the answer to many mothers' prayers!" In this video, [...]

Thank you donors – Video2025-11-24T16:34:56+00:00

August Update

2025-11-24T16:34:57+00:00

Ato Markos reported from rural Maji District this week. At the end of May, work actually began, and this week the crew unspooled pipe and ran it down the hillside to waiting communities. Markos texted, “The people cheered with joy!” I’m going to give you a photo-rich report of the wonderful and shocking progress that the construction crew, led by Ato Markos (MDC Program Manager) and Wzt Helen (District Water Engineer), accomplished in the last three months. But first, let me say that this only happened because Ato Markos pushed and pushed thanklessly behind the scenes for two years, without any [...]

August Update2025-11-24T16:34:57+00:00

Update: Siski and Adikas Clean Water Project

2025-11-24T16:34:57+00:00

Fifty percent of our global citizens and neighbors don't have access to clean water. What a shocking fact that is! This number includes most of the population of the rural Maji District. You may remember that one of MDC's earliest interventions was that we replaced the burnt-out pump at the Maji Town well. We followed up with a solar array to replace the dirty, expensive, and broken-down diesel pump. This returned about 3500 men, women, and children to drinking clean well water, instead of having to visit the trampled springs outside of town. Two years later, our project manager, Ato Markos, [...]

Update: Siski and Adikas Clean Water Project2025-11-24T16:34:57+00:00

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