MPONELA, Malawi (KDVR) — It is a herculean task. A nonprofit with the ambitious goal of completing the installation of more than 4,000 safe, sustainable drinking wells in remote east African villages. And a Colorado volunteer plays a crucial role in pulling it off.

Jim Nussbaumer of Estes Park is a retired software engineer who's been traveling to Malawi with a charity called Marion Medical Mission since 1999. He helps the organization get the tools needed to help crews install the 58,000 wells they've already completed across Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique.

He also helps them secure the rugged vehicles needed to get the job done. And he's helped in the manufacture of the pumps that pull the well water from the ground, giving fresh water to an estimated five million Africans who

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