Water Wells for Africa founder Kurt Dahlin discovered decades ago how harmful the generational impact of contaminated sources was in Southeast Africa.
In 1994, he visited the country of Malawi as part of a humanitarian mission regarding refugees who were fleeing there from Mozambique, which was embroiled in a civil war.
“I discovered the terrible scourge of water poverty where women, girls, and whole families where were all suffering from contaminated open water sources,” he told The Epoch Times.
A woman carries water in Lupapa Village, Malawi, on July 6, 2021. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
That discovery led to Dahlin’s founding of Water Wells for Africa two years later….