Lilongwe, Malawi (KDVR) -- It seems like everywhere Grant Arends goes in Malawi, the locals shower him with gifts. Big bunches of bananas, buckets of potatoes. Even live chickens.

The gifts may not seem like much, but they're all that villagers in the most remote parts of Malawi can afford. It's their way of saying thank you to Arends and the other volunteers who've come here to help provide safe, sustainable drinking water in one of the least developed countries on earth.

"I was at a well and they had no gift to give. A man had a torn shirt. He took it off. He literally gave us the shirt off his back," Arends told FOX31.

The Boulder financial consultant is in the middle of a three-week stint in the east African country, working with a nonprofit called Marion Medical Mission. He's one o

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