Last month my team and I traveled around to a few poverty stricken villages in Uganda. We lived in mud huts and spent the time in each village going door to door talking to people, teaching seminars, and speaking at crusades. We visited around six villages in total, all surrounding Lake Albert.
While we were doing door to door in the village of Bugoigo, we were talking with a group of people and one woman, a believer, asked if we were bringing anything other than spiritual encouragement for them. She went on to tell us of the poverty of the village; telling us about their problem with clean drinking water, and about young children (girls in particular) that drop out of school, get pregnant… and then the cycle goes on. She noticed one of my teammates bottle of water… she said, “see, you can have clean bottled water but we cannot afford it”. She wanted to know if we were bringing in a program, such as World Vision, to help them.
I sat there feeling helpless, wanting to give them all an abundance of clean water, but not knowing how. That’s when a young boy, about 14 years old said, “water is life”. I’ve heard that slogan before… and the wheels began to turn. I began to ask questions about their largest need: WATER and how they obtain it. They actually get the water straight from the lake- and let me tell you, that lake water is not clean. It is full of disease and muck. Sometimes they will boil the water (but this costs money to buy coal), but even then it still doesn’t meet any of the requirements for “clean” water. If they want to actually get clean water they have to catch a bus, far down the road, spend 13,000 shillings- which obviously, most people don’t have. In this village they use phone voucher s as money.
So, I thought, why can’t I help them get a well? I have friends and family that would be on board, why couldn’t I? Of course I can.
Now, there are MANY MANY places around the world, especially in Africa, that need water wells.
But the Bible says “ask and you shall receive” and I figure… this woman asked.
I think we are supposed to be the hands and feet of Jesus and this is us being that.
More than 1 billion ppl, 1/6 of worlds population are without access to safe drinking water.
Half of the world’s poor are suffering from waterborne diseases, of which over 6000- mainly children-die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water. Diseases include; diarrhoeal disease, typhoid, cholera, dysentery, ecoli, and others. Millions of people perish every year because they don’t have clean water to drink.
Thank you so much for supporting me on this amazing trip around the world: I am now FULLY and COMPLETELY funded thanks to you. Really, thank you for making this possible. If you still want to support me in my endeavors; supporting me in this water wells mission would be the best way.
