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By ASHLEY BROADHURST
Solar Under The Sun,
the Synod of the Sun’s sis-
ter project to Living Waters
for the World, has won a
$200,000 grant from Presbyte-
rian Women.
Each year the Creative
Ministries Ofering Commit-
tee of Presbyterian Women,
PCUSA, selects a small num-
ber of creative projects to re-
ceive their annual birthday
ofering grant. This year, out
of 32 proposals, Presbyterian
Women chose to fund two
future Solar Under The Sun
(SUTS) projects.
First, SUTS will upgrade
its Solar School training fa-
cility at Fernclif Camp &
Conference Center to pro-
vide students with hands-on
training in the diferent situa-
tions and confgurations they
fnd in the feld.
One of the systems will be
a solar powered, eco-youth
center where youth groups
can experience low-carbon
retreats and learn about
“green” mission projects.
These installations will train
solar school mission teams
and also teach thousands of
campers, youth, and guests
about the value of solar en-
ergy for creation care and
outreach.
Second, the grant will be
used to assist mission teams
with the costs of solar pan-
els and related hardware for
mission projects specifcally
in Haiti. These projects most-
ly use solar energy to power
LWW clean water systems.
SUTS is now branching into
stand-alone systems to light
schools, computer labs, med-
ical facilities, and other life-
giving services to desperately
poor communities.
The Birthday Ofering
will be distributed in 2012,
and SUTS is eagerly anticipat-
ing the excitement and op-
portunities the new funding
will bring.
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Ashley Broadhurst of Las Vegas,
Nev., is moderator of LWW’s Haiti
Network Coordinating Team and So-
lar Under the Sun administrator.
Light shines in
Cheridant, Haiti’s,
new Volunteer
Guest House,
home of the very
frst stand-alone
solar system pro-
vided by Solar Un-
der The Sun.
Solar project awarded $200,000 from PW
The work of an LWW wa-
ter team from Charleston,
W.Va., won prominent news
coverage from the
Charleston
Daily Mail
.
The article, published in
the October 5 edition, was
written by Charlotte Ferrell
Smith of the
Daily Mail
staf.
Portions of the article follow:
A local church group
has worked for more than a
year so a community in Ni-
caragua may have something
that many Americans take
for granted — safe drinking
water.
Living Waters for the
World is a mission project
of the Synod of Living Wa-
ters, Presbyterian Church
U.S.A.…
Agroup fromFirst Presby-
terian Church in Charleston
began a project in December
2009 that last month culmi-
nated in clean drinking water
for the village of Siares in the
mountains of Metagalpa, Ni-
caragua.
K. Paul Davis, a church
member and Charleston at-
torney, headed the project
that he found both exciting
and humbling. Hewas among
11 churchmembers who took
the training at Clean Water U
in Oxford, Miss.
The project included a
few trips to Nicaragua and a
covenant between the people
there and the church for op-
erating and maintaining the
new water system.
The residents there built
the facility to house the wa-
ter purifcation system and
the church covered the cost.
The church also will pay for
maintaining the water sys-
tem for a year. Meanwhile,
the residents have formed a
board to continue running
the system.
The water the people had
been drinking contained bac-
teria that could cause health
issues, especially in the chil-
dren, he said. …
The cost of a water pu-
rifcation installation varies
according to location, travel
expenses, and construction
requirements.
Ken Volkers of First Presbyterian Church
in Charleston, S.C., works with residents of
Siares, Nicaragua, to assemble a system.
Charleston team’s installation wins press coverage
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