1 in 6 people don't have access to clean water! That's 1.1 billion people... and we can do something about it!I'm so thankful to have learned about this grass roots movement Charity: Water they are a group of selfless and committed people who haven't settled for just lamenting over the heartbreak and suffering in the world, they are doing something about it! and I want to share their wonderful mission with you and encourage you to make your first gift this Christmas to someone who actually needs it, unlike your cousin's boyfriends dog... just saying....
Water for Christmas is a movement bringing both awareness and real "on the ground" change to Africa's water crisis.
They see no reason for 4500 mothers to bury children every day! for lack of clean water. And in most places, clean water flows just below the surface. With a little help, local African communities can tap into safe, clean water. Helping provide clean water and basic sanitation is thus one of the first and simplest steps to ending water-borne diseases and their accompanying cycle of poverty in the world.
All money donated goes directly to charity: water who in turn uses 100% of their donations to drill for fresh water. They'd love for you to partner with them by making donations directly to charity: water, which you can do here.
All donations are tax-deductible.
"There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." (Denis Waitley)
Water for Christmas is a movement bringing both awareness and real "on the ground" change to Africa's water crisis.
They see no reason for 4500 mothers to bury children every day! for lack of clean water. And in most places, clean water flows just below the surface. With a little help, local African communities can tap into safe, clean water. Helping provide clean water and basic sanitation is thus one of the first and simplest steps to ending water-borne diseases and their accompanying cycle of poverty in the world.
All money donated goes directly to charity: water who in turn uses 100% of their donations to drill for fresh water. They'd love for you to partner with them by making donations directly to charity: water, which you can do here.
All donations are tax-deductible.
"There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." (Denis Waitley)
Isaiah 58: 6-7: puts it this way- “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter? When you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Your $10 will buy clean water for one person for 10 years! 10 years people!! I can guarantee no one will be wearing that tie you bought them, or using those fuzzy slippers 10 years from now!I've purchased my first Christmas gift today and I hope you'll do the same, in light of the economy these days, it seems many us have been awoken from our consumer induced coma and are seeing what is necessary and what is just plain ridiculous, I hope that we will all see how incredibly blessed and RICH we are, and that maybe the kind of fasting that God is asking of us is to not buy a latte today, or the 10th sweater to go with that pair of shoes you know you spent too much on, and do something with our money that counts!
Jesus said to love our neighbor as our selves... I'm pretty sure that if we didn't have clean water to put in our babies bottles or cook our pasta with we would do everything we could to get it flowing into our homes, lets be compassionate and do the same for precious people, created in the image of God who are suffering... remember it's not that we have to help, WE GET TO!
Now go and make me proud... after all who really needs another nose hair trimmer.
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gonna have to check it out...thanks!
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