Good Water deep well in the countryside

    Outside the front gate of Christianville, you take an immediate right to go to Haiti Made, a local cafe, coffee and smoothie shop run by Americans. An eighth of a mile down the rock strewn, bumpy, water puddled lane, that barely makes a foot path, is the landmark Old Well. It is called old because it is a deep well drilled in the 1950’s when the Christianville Bible University occupied the hillside above the well. The University was taken out by one of Mother Nature’s hurricanes some years ago and all that is left of it is a concrete shell of a building at the top of the ridge, obscured by battered trees and beat down vegetation. Often, at this well, there are vehicles, motorcycles pulled off the road while men and women fill yellow five gallon plastic jugs with water to take home for cooking, drinking, and bathing. I splash water on my face, direct from the spigot, stopping my walk to Haiti Made for a moment. A hurricane, taking out this Bible University on the hill, is ironic. If the well had been taken out too, the tragedy would have been exponentially worse. While having a God helps us survive, not having water is a death sentence.