Repair a Well; £67
Well, making a well well well again for water to well from it for a community.
It's amazing that in a world with such technological, scientific expertise as ours there are still people for whom clean, safe water is an issue.
Did you know that 20% of the world's population doesn't have access to safe drinking water. To put it another way, that's over a billion people. That works itself out as one child dying from a disease this unsafe water has caused every 15 seconds. Why? How? Why are we all so useless and so powerless? How can we not be?
That makes my blood run cold when I stop and think about it.
Water Aid.
The cheesey cartoon wishing-well picture above may be a cheesey cartoon - but his sentiment is the one I'll have in my thoughts if you were to decide to give me this for Christmas.
[ World Vision catalogue, www.greatgifts.org ]
It's amazing that in a world with such technological, scientific expertise as ours there are still people for whom clean, safe water is an issue.Did you know that 20% of the world's population doesn't have access to safe drinking water. To put it another way, that's over a billion people. That works itself out as one child dying from a disease this unsafe water has caused every 15 seconds. Why? How? Why are we all so useless and so powerless? How can we not be?
every
15
seconds
1
child
dies
of a disease
caused by
15
seconds
1
child
dies
of a disease
caused by
bad water.
That makes my blood run cold when I stop and think about it.
Water Aid.
The cheesey cartoon wishing-well picture above may be a cheesey cartoon - but his sentiment is the one I'll have in my thoughts if you were to decide to give me this for Christmas.
[ World Vision catalogue, www.greatgifts.org ]
posted by luv&daisies at 5:23 pm
1 Comments:
Thank you for posting this. I think it is very important to draw attention to the ways we can show humanity our mercy. I would MUCH rather get a well for christmas than another pair of fuzzy socks or some fashionista cool item that'll sit in my closet.
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