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I wrote down the condition and situation of the village on the
foot of Mt. Agung.
When you have a time, if you spare the time to read my
experience at the village of the foot of Mt Agung. I will appreciate very
much.
I spent many days at Tulamben for handling the project, I feel real
great nature our behind there is the highest mountain Agung ( 3,142 meters ) and
at front there is blue ocean until far a way while I was there I tripped toward
the foot of Mt. Agung. by motor bicycle And I found the following situation of
the village.
The villages nearby our project has no drinking water and their
villages are poorest in Bali. Only since December to March the villagers can
harvest beans and corn.@Since April to November there is nothing to
do.
Because the east side of Mt. Agung is very dry, so they must wake up at
04:00 and come down to the beach ( There is a fountain beside our land )to take
drinking water by pair of buckets on bare foot about 3 Kilo meters to 5 Kilo
meters.
They have just small hut and their food is only corn and tapioca no
rice at all.
In the beginning Our contractor has dug 15 places but he could
not find any water and the head of machine was broken many times due to thick
big rock.
And he gave up and apologized me, I said "Even you made a great
effort but you can not find the water, there is no way, it's OK, I never mind
thank you."
And I had a inspiration and I pointed one place and asked another
garden contractor to dig here.
Then just digging two meters a lot of water
comes out.
I am thankful for god.
The contractor wondered how I know the
place under where there is fresh water.
I assume that before digging that
place, if I found the water first I would like to bring the water to the
villagers. So God may received my mind.
After we install the pump we pumped
up the water and twice a week we brought the water to the villagers.
For
bringing the water I bought a land cruiser and mountain bicycle because the road
to the foot of mountain is rocky and difficult to go by ordinary car.
In
the beginning the villagers are confused to see the foreign people and we told
them we brought the water for you, then people understood with smile.
Even
they are poorest whenever we brought the water, villagers welcomed us and
returned the favor with giving us coconuts and a lot of tapioca.
I wondered
if I am very poor and have no rice and no drinking water, is it possible to
return the favor with@their staple food tapioca.
So I recognized their heart
are more rich than me.
I took our staff from Denpasar, even they are Balinese, they do not know
such a situation, some of our staff offered to support them even small
money.
In the future I would like to make a well on the foot of
Mt. Agung, so villagers has a lot of water and they harvest many plantation
whole year.
We feel that is a mission of our second project.
Thank you for
your time
Thomas T.INOUE
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