Water is Flowing For the past year, Chad has been advising on a water distribution system in rural Cambodia. The challenges facing the community are huge and the typical solutions have not been working. Lack of reliable ground water has meant that the typical shallow wells go dry for parts of the year. The lack of water has contributed to mass emigration from this part of the country to neighboring Thailand. Many who migrate do so without proper paperwork, entering the neighboring countries as illegal immigrants. This leads them to be easily exploited and trafficked. To address the root of the problem, a community water system was designed by the EMI office and is now being constructed! Late last month Chad was able to visit the project in order to see and learn from the construction efforts. It was so encouraging to hear the testimony of the people receiving the water as well as hear from the construction team on how the work has been going. It was awesome to see water flowing through new pipes throughout the community! Thank you so much for your prayers and support as we enable water to flow and communities to be transformed! If you would like more details about this project, or others that EMI is working on, click on the EMI Project Portfolio page: https://emiworld.org/portfolio/101383 COVID Strikes Cambodia We have been so blessed to live in Cambodia during this pandemic. Over the entire year, Cambodia had reported very few cases (typically less than 5 per day) and no deaths. Community transmission was limited to three small outbreaks of less than 100 cases that were quickly contained. Unfortunately, that has ended, and we are now in the midst of Cambodia's largest COVID outbreak with over 600 people currently diagnosed with COVID. On Thursday, there was the first reported COVID related death. There is a growing sense of fear among the population as the cases continue to mount throughout the country. Additional measures have been enacted at Shanthi's school and she is now teaching from home for the first time. Chad's office has also put in place stricter measures of temperature checks, limiting in person meetings and much more mask wearing while in the office. We are still very fortunate to be in Cambodia, these numbers pale in comparison to what is happening throughout many other places in the world. Fear is still quite real though and the country is slowing locking down. | 
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