For those living in the country of Haiti, the task of getting clean water isn’t so simple.
Matthew Brown, a third-generation co-owner of Yadkin Well Company in Hamptonville, has been volunteering for several years now to help drill wells in Haiti.
Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that devastated much of the country, Brown took their volunteer work international.
“There’s always been a need there but an increased need because after the earthquake so many people moved out of the cities and started from scratch,” Brown explained.
Brown volunteers with a group called Healing Hands International (HHI).
Each well can serve around 1,500 people, Brown said.
He and his friend, Yadkin Well Company employee David Cave, were able to help drill that milestone 1,000th well in the Haitian town of La Tremblay.
The people of Haiti often must use streams to collect drinking water.
Yadkin Well Company serves customers in around 40 counties across the state as well as Virginia and South Carolina.
“The excitement around water that they have, we just really take for granted what we have here,” Brown said.