At 5pm on Monday night, the City of Broken Arrow, where we live, decided to flush out the fire hydrants to get rid of sediment that had built up within the valves. While I understand the reasoning for doing so, it put many families in a bind, if even for only 12 hours. That’s right….12 hours, without clean water.
I’m embarrassed to even write this, but having to find ways to bathe out kids and do the little things like brush our teeth, became a major chore. These are definitely “First-world problems.” What a tragedy! We didn’t have clean water for 12 hours! [see: sarcasm] It made me think of all of the places in the world without clean water on an ongoing, day-to-day basis. Wow, what a spoiled bunch we are!
When I woke up this morning, I took a shower and brushed my teeth, all with restored, clean running water, while there are over 900 million people still waiting for safe water in the world. We had to “suffer” through 12 hours of dirty water.
Sometimes God shows you the biggest lesson in the most inconvenient of times. So this is what I’m asking…will you follow my lead and donate to a charity water organization of your choosing? Personally, my family is giving to the Water4 Foundation, because friends of ours, Kemp and Kim Ward have played a major role in building wells across Africa and I know that the money that they raise goes straight to providing clean water for thousands.
I’m excited about the great work that the Water4 Foundation is doing to bring fresh, safe water to children and families around the world. Water4 is digging water wells to help change the lives of the 900 million people in the world who have no access to safe water.
With each well they dig the Water4 team also trains local workers to dig safe, reliable water wells. So that when the Water4 team moves on to the next project they leave behind a group that is trained and ready to support themselves and their communities. Teams typically become self-supporting businesses while providing fresh water for a fraction of what traditional approaches cost.
I’m supporting the work of the Water4 Foundation and hope you will too.
Together, we can make a life-changing difference for thousands of children and families!
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