30. The last day

Today we returned to dismantle the camp and pour Zam Zam’s water into the well. The “King’s” nephew worked with our workers in a way that impressed us all. He worked much harder than they did without ever creating a problem. His uncle sent him to help us, the well is their property and he is working for himself, but his seriousness on the site deserves to be rewarded.

I noticed that he has fallen in love with the garden, I thought: what more welcome gift than building a system to bring water to the garden?

Yesterday I asked Ibrahim what he thought about this and he replied that Abu Bakr had already requested it, but it meant an extra day of work with material and labour costs that had not been foreseen in the contract. Abu Bakr could not afford this expense, so he had given up.

Ibrahim called him and said: AbdusSalaam and I are impressed by the way you have worked with our workers and we want to reward you, would you prefer that we give you money or that we bring water to your garden?

Without hesitation Abu Bakr chose the water for the garden, he was beaming with happiness.

So I took on the expense and commissioned Ibrahim to build Abu Bakr’s tank, and today we returned to dismantle the camp, to pour Zam Zam’s water into the well and to build the tank.

Underground pipes will allow Abu Bakr to receive water from the well directly into his garden 30 metres away.

For Abu Bakr, having enough water to wash his clothes is an unheard-of luxury.

After that I went down into the well to pour Zam Zam.

I then wrote according to Ibrahim’s instructions “Well rehabilitated with modern system of collection using a filtering column, with the help of Italian Muslims.”

Then I wrote down the Internet address where you can see the whole story of Bir Amin.