The main objective of the project was to provide safe and adequate water supply to Ropi mission and communities located at Kachachullo Village. The work was divided into two phases. The first phase work involved drilling of two boreholes and related activities such as supply and installation of well casings, supply and packing of gravel, well development, test pumping and wellhead construction with grouting. Then, the second and the last phase involved construction of water supply distribution system and installation of the water pumping equipment power generating set. The well depth is 275 meters. As recall, Ropi mission is situated in the southern part of the country, almost at 320 km from the Capital city, Addis Ababa. With different financial support to Rev. Frs. Paolo Marre and Martins Jose Ruiz, people in Ropi mission got access to safe water. A day more than 1800 families are getting access to water. Unthinkable but true. Wherever you are Dear Reverend Fathers and Confreres, be sure that people of Ropi mission and surroundings are so grateful to you for your work. May God’ Spirit be always with you. Amen! Within three weeks, starting from 25 of February, we were visited in our mission of Ropi by two friends of Fr. Paolo Marre, Imc(Alesio and Pino, from Genova-Italy) to evaluate and to do some work for better water’s quality. After their work, the mission of Ropi and surroundings got the possibility of drinking clean and tasty water. Thanks to God for His providence. The mission is not ours, it belongs to God. We are just simple servants and pilgrims. The most important value learnt from some guests, is the fact of willingly leaving their homes, families, countries, travelling with their own tickets, then after fulfilling their work, they always go back without “making noise”. That way of serving others really leads to humility. In all missionary work, let us do for God’s name and not for our own glory or name. I fully agree with the Supreme Pontiff BENEDICT XVI in his Encyclical letter “Deus Caritas Est.” number 35: “(…) those who are in a position to help others will realize that in doing so they themselves receive help; being able to help others is no merit or achievement of their own. This duty is a grace. The more we do for others, the more we understand and can appropriate the words of Christ: “We are useless servants.”(LK 17:10). We recognize that we are not acting on the basis of any superiority or greater personal efficiency, but because the Lord has graciously enabled us to do so. There are times when the burden of need and our own limitations might tempt us to become discouraged. But precisely then we are helped by the knowledge that, in the end, we are only instruments in the Lord’s hands; and this knowledge frees us from the presumption of thinking that we alone are personally responsible for building a better world. In all humility we do what we can, and in all humility we will entrust the rest to the Lord. It is God who governs the world, not we. We offer him our service only to the extent that we can, and for as long as he grants us the strength. To do all we can with what strength we have, however, is the task which keeps the good servant of Jesus-Christ always at work: “the love of Christ urges us on.”(2 Corinthians 5,14)
May God bless our benefactors and the fruits of our missionary work, Amen!
