Visit from Barry Ilunga Pastor Barry Ilunga from Zambia meets Wilmslow Wellls Committee and supporters On 13th February, many of the charity’s committee members and supporters gathered together at the home of Shirley Baulkwill to meet Pastor Barry Ilunga. Barry had come to Britain to meet some of the groups which had sponsored his projects, in Zambia, and Jon Witt, from the Ivy Cottage Church, in Manchester, who had been hosting Pastor Barry, accompanied him.   Barry spoke movingly about his upbringing in one of the Zambian shanty towns and he told us about the horrendous poverty and hardship suffered by many African communities. Jon regularly visits the projects, with which the Ivy Cottage Church is involved, and he endorsed Barry’s descriptions of the disease and deprivation, emphasising the enormous need for funding to provide the most basic facilities for these impoverished people.   In 2005, Wilmslow Wells for Africa supported the digging of a borehole for the rural community of Kapeshi, at a cost of £3300, with Barry overseeing the work. This project has brought enormous benefits to the villagers and the following report was sent to us shortly after its completion. “Water in Kapeshi area has dried up in all wells except in the borehole. People are coming from long distance with their bicycles to get water from the borehole. Villagers are saying indeed the borehole came at the right time and now that we need so much water we have it at our disposal in the borehole. Thanks so much to the friends that helped with finances for the borehole.” At the meeting with Barry and Jon, a clinic, which is being built at Mbila, was discussed. The clinic will serve a population of several thousand people and, having received a formal proposal, the trustee committee agreed to fund a borehole, at a cost of £9234, which will provide the clinic with a clean and constant water source. To view some photo’s of these projects, please click here