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.

For nearly two decades, she's been traveling 8,500 miles from Alabama to Malawi every fall. Malawi is one of the most impoverished countries in the world, where more than 70% of the population lives below poverty level, and where malnutrition and lack of clean water run ra

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