Alabama volunteer helping supply clean drinking water to remote villages in east Africa

MPONELA, Malawi (WIAT) — Meg Packard, of Birmingham, is currently halfway across the world, trying to change and perhaps even save lives.

Packard is part of a team of volunteers with Marion Medical Mission, a non-profit that has spent decades installing more than 58,000 safe, sustainable drinking water wells in a part of Africa where thousands of people die from drinking contaminated water.

“I’m a lawyer by training. I have no good usable skills, but here I am on a team where we all have the same goal,” Packard said…

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