In 2013, SonSet Solutions designed a portable tripod to safely install hand pumps in water wells. This was used in partnership with a clean-water ministry called Design Outreach (DO) to install a water pump in Zolomondo, Malawi. Previously, many people in this village died because of unsafe water, which they had traveled up to 10 […]
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Discover your mission. SonSet Solutions uses this phrase to summarize the purpose of our Discover program, a one-year service opportunity designed to help recent graduates explore ways of using their professional skills in a ministry context. This is an apt description of my personal experience going through Discover. When I graduated from college, I had
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Delivering SonSet® Radios in Ukraine Where would you turn for hope during a time of war and desperation? On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, and there has been incredible suffering and despair for many. However, there is a glimmer of hope amidst the darkness. In March of 2022, SonSet Solutions asked a partner ministry, TWR,
Furaha1 was devastated. She was grieving because her baby was stillborn. This was the third time. Her husband had now had enough and kicked her out, not wanting to have anything more to do with her. The chaplain stopped by her bed and listened to her. He shared the good news of Jesus Christ, and Furaha
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Fred was a church altar boy with a bright future in Gulu, Uganda. But, when the head of his household died, it left him hopeless and full of frustration. Fred ended up joining street gangs, using drugs, and eventually becoming mentally ill. He walked around like a mad man on the streets of Gulu for
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Radio Voice of Hope (VOH) has a heart for the nation. They began their broadcasting ministry in the city of Bujumbura in 2008 at the request of the president of Burundi. The president asked Hope Africa University to start a radio station that would “play modern music, bring the gospel to his people, and help
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Kibuye Hope Hospital is located in the Republic of Burundi, a small and poor, landlocked country in Africa bordered by Tanzania, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. With a population of close to 13 million and only about 1,300 doctors, medical care can be difficult to obtain, especially in the rural areas like Kibuye.
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Navigating the terrain to the health clinic in Wafa Village was arduous. Jordan and his three national employees drove through rivers and hiked several miles before reaching the Wafa River. Five locals met them there lifting the 60-pound box of equipment as they carefully waded through waist-high water. It was another mile or more before
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SonSetLink™ is a technology developed by SonSet Solutions to monitor the activity of community water handpumps to minimize downtime and shortages of clean water. There are an estimated 500,000 water pumps throughout Africa, geographically spread out across an area more than three times the size of the U.S.A., each one of them vitally important for
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It began with excited children at a church in the United States and ended with curious children crowded around the installation of solar-powered technology in a church in Tanzania. We at SonSet Solutions love connecting churches in the U.S. with our international ministry partners. One of the ways we do this is by offering the
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