Friday, October 8, 2010

The need is great

Imagine for a minute, you are a mom or a dad and your child is dehydrated from being sick and is in desperate need of water.  You go to the local watering hole that provides water for an entire village to find that it is empty. 

You fully understand that the hole is empty because it you are unable to dig deeper than a few feet to get to the water that is mostly only 20 feet below.  the further you dig, the more sand falls in making it impossible to dig a deep well in the sandy region of remote Africa in areas like Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, to name a few.

You have two options.  First, wait for water to seep back in to gain water for your sick child.  This could take a day to get enough water to hydrate you don or daughter.  Additionally, the rest of the village needs water as well.  You second option is to walk up to four hours, each way, to find a pond to gather as much water as you can possibly carry to help your child get well.

This is an every day task that the villagers of remote Africa deal with.  They do not have access to a large enough quantity of water to keep their families healthy.  The water they have is not sanitary.  The quality of life as well as the length of life is drastically reduced without the blessing of clean drinking water.  Showering is laughable to them, not even on their wish list...simply plenty of water to drink and cook with will fulfill many of their dreams.

We can help, every dollar donated will help provide water to these villagers.  It only takes $3000 dollars to install a well to provide easy access to large quantities of clean drinking water.  You can change a life with GROW Africa, one well at a time.  Click to DONATE via our secure server today and become the change.

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