Marion Medical Mission Home (First Cost Increase ever)
Marion Medical Mission's board of directors held it annual meeting in February 2007 and made the decision to raise the cost of a shallow well to $350. We have held the price at $300 since early in the 90's - - - remarkable! We have never before increased the price of a shallow well. For well over a decade, as we increased the number of wells, we have been able to work smarter and more efficiently to hold the cost constant. MMM, however, cannot out-smart inflation forever. The cost of diesel fuel has doubled. Prices on all materials to construct wells have gone up.
Providing safe, clean drinking water for a village at $350 is still a bargain for donors and a God-send for villagers. Please know that every penny of the $350 will go to construct a shallow well. Volunteers still labor without pay and pay their own travel expenses to Africa and living expenses while there. MMM still deducts no over head costs.