Kids (Children) Get Involved Too!
Intensive Gardening		Bee Keeping

Community Health Education (CHE) - 1 week offered in the spring & fall    

Includes: Biblical Basis of Health, Relief vs. Development, Community Assessment, Preparing Lessons, Integrating the Physical with the Spiritual, How to set up a Community Health Program, and Human Nutrition.
 

Energy Efficient Shelter - 1 week offered in the fall

You arrive on a remote mission station to find that there is unreliable power, inadequate sanitation, and the people around the “neighborhood” build with whatever they can find.  If you are going into this type of situation, “Energy Efficient Shelter” is just for you!  Receive hands-on experience building with straw bales and tires, and using solar power and wind.  Cisterns, composting and indoor gardening are also covered.  This course is for men and women alike and includes outdoor labs combined with classroom instruction and interesting group interaction.
 

Water Technologies   

You want to turn on a faucet and have water come out; you don’t want to know where it comes from.  But on almost any continent you will visit, that is a luxury few experience.  Clean water is a rare commodity, and in fact, many people around the world die of water-borne diseases. Here at Equip we’re seeking to find an answer to this worldwide problem.  We offer two courses that can provide practical solutions in this much-needed area of ministry.

In these courses you will gain the experience needed to provide clean, safe water for your family and even for your village. The work will be challenging, but you will learn valuable skills that will give new meaning to giving a drink of water in Jesus’ name.

During the course you will receive instruction in:               

You will get hands-on experience setting up and operating the LS-100 shallow well drilling rig. You will actually drill a well, hit water, develop, case, and complete a well with a hand pump.  You will also learn about and use a simple hand auger method of producing a shallow well for use where soils permit.  Also, how to implement a manual percussion drilling method using a system that can penetrate rock.

LS-100

The LS-100 and LS-200 are drilling rigs that were developed by Lone Star Bit, Inc. of Stafford, TX for use by Living Water International and Life Water International. The rig is small enough to be carried in the back of a half-ton pick-up truck.  The LS-100 and the LS-200 were developed specifically for mission application.  They produce a six (6) inch borehole 100 and 200 feet deep respectively through soft to medium rock formation.  They are available from Lone Star Bit.  The LS-200 operates in the same manner as the LS-100, with heavier constructed parts allowing the driller to penetrate deeper.  All the training on the LS-100 is applicable to the LS-200.  During the class on drilling with the LS-100 you will drill a well up to a depth of 100 feet and learn what constitutes a good aquifer, how to set a casing, apply your gravel pack, make your own screen, aquifer development, setting the pump, pulling the pump, and proper abandoning of the well site. At the end of the first two days, there is a relaxed evening session to review the events of the day. 

The fee includes a training manual, a training video, meals and accommodations.  Your Equip instructors have been trained by Living Water International. 

For more information on the LS-100 and 200 the following link is provided. http://www.lonestarbit.com/index.php?topgroupid=3

Hand Auger Produced Wells:

We offer a simple method of producing shallow wells in soft formations where water might be available at sixty feet or less.  This method has been used successfully 

Percussion Drilled Wells:

During your time at Equip, Inc. you will have the opportunity to learn a method of drilling developed hundreds of years ago by the Chinese.  They have drilled wells through rock to depths of hundreds of feet.  This method is labor and time intensive, but where capital is not available, and labor and time are, the percussion drill could be used to provide a good source of water. Upon completion of the course, the participant will receive instruction in the use of and plans for the construction of this simple rig.

Water Pump Systems

Equip's water pumping systems course will provide students with hands-on training in the operation of the most common hand pumps, simple electrical pumps and gravity water systems found on most foreign mission fields.  Students will examine and discuss case studies regarding WASH development in order to apply these lessons to their mission area.

Course Output

• Ability to assemble/disassemble/operate/maintain and repair simple problems for the most common pumping systems found on the mission field.
• Basic water testing and well disinfection
• Community entry and assessment tools
• Ground water and surface water issues and how they effect your ministry
• Understand the collective worth of water, sanitation and hygiene education
• Integrated mission
• Value of WASH ministry for short-term and long-term service

With this one-week course missionaries exposed to these concepts are better equipped to meet the need for safe water in the mission field.  Total cost for the course is US$350.00.

WASH  Community Training

Improvements to water quality and supply are proven to be far more effective and sustainable when hygiene and sanitation behavior are also addressed.  Diarrheal diseases are drastically reduced, in turn reducing the need for costly curative medicine and freeing up medical clinics for more serious illnesses.

At Equip we see a need to offer churches a short-term program with long-lasting effects that can be easily carried out with church members to address the problems created by unsafe water supply and sanitation. WASH Community Training is a participatory training of trainers course combining practical WAter, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) science, community development principles and Biblical truths that equip both short-term and long-term missionaries with the practical knowledge and skills to address these problems.

Course Output

• Biblically based community development principles and implementation concepts for a successful water development ministry.
• Knowledge and skills to teach community members in another culture about hygiene
• Principles, techniques and strategies to train others to teach hygiene
• A clearly understandable program that can be easily implemented in home churches and on the field 
• An alternative and affordable strategy to curative medical clinics 

Through interactive hands-on learning and classroom instruction, participants will be equipped in this one-week course with knowledge and skills that better prepare them to minister wholistically. Total cost for the course is US$350.00.

There is no "one" solution to these problems as they are as diverse and varied as the people, cultures, geology and locations in which missionaries serve.  Our Water Technologies

What will it cost?

It is the goal of A.T.I. to teach missionaries how to live a life-style of community, simplicity, and responsibility. Therefore, we try to keep the costs to a minimum. 

The courses are primarily offered at our North Carolina Training Center where we can control the cost.

Participants invariably want to take advantage of our other resources such as our hard-to-find books, so bring your checkbook.

A more specific break down of these costs is available upon request.

What can I expect?

You will live in somewhat spartan conditions. Couples will have their own dormitory room, and singles will have a shared dormitory room. There are twin beds in each room. There is a joint facility for showers. In the village, the only running water is in the community cook cabin and shower house.

Your day will be composed of the following: chores (animal and village care), community meals prepared by you and the other trainees, classroom instruction, labs, and research projects.

Electrical Wiring
	Ferro Cement Project

  What if I need help after I am on the field?

We will not abandon you! We have an Integrated Human Services team to help you. If you have questions or research problems while on the field, you can contact us and we will do our best to help you with those problems, but we will even go further than that. You can arrange with us to have our I.H.S. team visit you for short or extended time periods on the field in order to get your projects going.