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The Garrison family at the SIM guest house the day they left Zambia.
20 months in Zambia
In the summer of 2019, BIM/VDC Specialist Mark and battery inverting systems unexpectedly left the
Garrison moved to Zambia, Africa along with his project, and Mark and the team were able provided
wife and four children, with the intent of staying a an alternate design and then source a system from
full year. We published a Graypvine article in June a South African company. This allowed the team to
2020 about their experience working to build a new oversee the installation, ensuring it was completed
surgical center as volunteers with World Medical in a timely manner and the electrical system was
Mission, the medical arm of Samaritan’s Purse. Mark fully operational.
and his family extended their time in Zambia due to
the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, and "The thing we miss the most
we recently followed up with Mark to recap the final are the people we met and
months of his overseas mission trip. the community we had. Each
When we last checked in with Mark, he was in day brougth its own inherent
the midst of construction on the surgical center
project. A U.S.-based contractor Mark had been challenges, but it was the people
working with to complete the design for a solar who made the experience."
