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Orley Campbell

Based in: Victoria

Specialty: Cable Tool Drilling

It’s a story worth telling over and over again. About two years ago, Seeds of Hope was praying for a drill rig to use for our ministry. Specifically, a cable tool drill rig, which has a simple design well-suited for the needs and capabilities of the area where we work in Zambia.

Just a few months after we started praying, Kirk received a call from Lifewater Canada saying that a man he had never met before wanted to donate a drill rig to Seeds of Hope. That man was Orley Campbell.

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Orley had once been asked by World Vision to donate $15,000 to drill a well in Africa. Orley decided that for that much money, he could build his own drill rig and drill lots of wells. So he did. At almost eighty years of age, Orley designed and built a cable tool drill rig, which was shipped over to a ministry in Africa. Unfortunately, the ministry was too busy with their other projects and couldn’t facilitate its use.

Which is how Kirk found himself on the phone with Orley, being asked if SHIP could use a cable tool drill rig. “We would love to use it! Where is it?” Kirk asked. “It’s in Zambia” said Orley. “Where in Zambia?” It turns out the drill rig was in Kitwe, just forty miles away from where SHIP works!

So the drill rig was donated to us by the other ministry, and that summer Orley himself came over to Zambia to train our SHIP team in using his drill rig. The Zambians still talk about how hard he worked while over there!

Orley has been working with friends to construct a second drill rig with a few changes, which was just recently completed. Orley himself, now eighty-one years old, has been crawling underneath this drill rig to do welding!

Orley’s drill rig is also being put into computerized drawings so that we can look at manufacturing it for ourselves and other interested organizations. SHIP is pursing building a drill rig factory in Zambia and then in other countries

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As of fall 2006, Orley's first drill rig has been used to drill twenty-two wells in Zambia. A rig like this has the potential to drill up to thirty wells a year in the area where SHIP works, bringing clean water to tens of thousands of people.

We are very thankful for the help of Orley and his wife Yvonne with our drilling program. God is continuing to sow great blessing into Zambia through their partnership with us as we work to bring people clean water and hope.