Clean Water

Can you imagine a life without clean, pure water? Think about how many times you turn on your faucet everyday--brushing your teeth, cleaning your dishes, making coffee, running the dishwasher, washing machine, the sprinkler for the kids, not to mention showers, baths, and flushing our toilets.

In Malawi, the 3rd poorest country in the world, clean drinking water is a precious commodity that nearly four million people do not have access to. Lack of safe drinking water is the second largest killer of children, and hinders education, health and economic development. Only 32% of the rural population of Malawi have ACCESS to water within less than a mile's walk. Women and children have been known to walk as far as five miles to get water.

Equitas (see button to the right) is a non-profit org that Daniel and I are involved with on so many levels. Mainly, Equitas is the heartbeat and dream of our dear friends, Steve and Rachael Cook. (By the way--it is because of Steve and Rachael's contagious passion that we are moving to Malawi for the year!)

Steve is actually in Malawi as I type. His purpose is to get footage of the drilling and construction of 3 CLEAN WATER WELLS! Equitas has been raising funds for these wells this year and now (because of the end of rainy season) are able to finally drill these wells. Steve has been able to update his twitter by cell phone over there in the villages, so this morning Daniel told me that there was another update. I logged into Daniel's twitter---my eyes filled up with tears as I read Steve's brief update. He drank a cup of water from the first well--this CLEAN WATER well will help 450 people from 3 villages!! AMAZING...thank you God for your provision and hope for these people. I can't wait to hear all the stories, the pictures and hopefully see these wells for myself sometime soon.