THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, June 8, 1996 TAG: 9606080005
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 30 lines
Many people have no idea of the many good things that ``Operation Blessing International Relief and Development'' actually does. The following is only one:
In September 1995, Operation Blessing spent thousands of dollars to purchase a water-well-drilling machine and equipment and sent them to the Navajo Indians on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.
Operation Blessing commissioned a water-well consultant from Virginia Beach to travel to Arizona to teach the Navajo people to drill water wells. Many of these Indians must haul all their water in barrels, up to 25 miles twice a week, from water supplies approved only for livestock. This year Arizona is the driest it has been in 92 years. In some parts, cattle are dying for lack of water.
These people are in dire need of wells to survive. Operation Blessing has spent all it can right now on this project. The consultant/teacher, unable to stay longer in Arizona without expense monies, has returned to Virginia Beach.
Not only has Operation Blessing invested many dollars to assist the Indians in businesses of their own, but it has supplied food and clothing to many of these same people, as well as to people in many other places in the world.
HOWARD E. CUTTER
Virginia Beach, June 1, 1996 by CNB