Every eight seconds
someone dies from a disease brought on by unsafe drinking water (World Health
Organization). By the time you finish reading this twelve or more people
will have died needlessly, leaving loved one’s behind to grieve their
loss and wonder why. Why their loved one died? Why no one was there to help?
Why they feel no hope for the future?
But there is hope and today you
can help bring real help and hope to desperate people around the world.
Operation Blessing is tapping into nature’s resources by drilling
wells and building cisterns around the world to provide plenty of safe drinking
water where the situations are bleakest. Even now well and cistern projects
are being conducted in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.
Looking serene, the village Kotkhorpun, Thailand is surrounded by rice
paddies. Most of its 450 residents spend their days as daily wage laborers,
tending the rice fields in mud and ankle-high water. Though plenty of
water naturally feeds the paddies, access to a clean water source for
human consumption was nonexistent. They hiked a mile each way to fetch
water from an open well. Filled with contamination the water wasn’t
much better than that in the rice fields. Something had to be done! Stomach
ailments and disease were common. Children were drinking water that was
darker than coffee. Operation Blessing Thailand supplied clean water to
the men, women and children of Kotkhorpun by drilling a well and attaching
a pump.
Contaminated water can be deadly, so can an insufficient supply of water.
Right now droughts combined with the growing demands on water supplies
have caused severe shortages making daily life in western China a quest
for survival. Not so long ago it took the Ma family and their neighbors
living in China’s Gansu Province up to four hours every day to haul
water from the nearest stream! Each drop of water had to be used and reused.
Once the vegetables were washed, the dishes were cleaned and then the
animals drank from that.
Operation Blessing China solved that problem by building cisterns for
every family in the village! They now get water from their own new cistern
located only steps away from the house. Each cistern holds enough rainwater
to last a family of seven for a year! One thousand cisterns have been
built in the Gansu and Oinghai Provinces so far. Over 3,100 people now
have easy access to safe drinking water.
A lifetime of clean water can be supplied for so little. But we need
your help now!
You can prevent a child or adult from illness and/or death! Imagine
providing a lifetime of clean water for the cost of your monthly water
bill. Stop imagining! The average American household’s water bill
is approximately $50 per month. It costs an average of just $50 to provide
one person with a lifetime supply of clean water (World Health Organization)!
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Help break the cycle of suffering by giving toward Operation Blessing's water wells and cisterns program. A gift of $1,800 can drill a well for villages and supply families with clean drinking water.
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