Little over a month ago, Tim and I decided to raise funds for Joshua's former orphanage. We specifically wanted to raise enough money to dig a new well. The current well doesn't work sufficiently and the children do not have clean drinking water. I posted request on our blog (see post entitled More Water Please) and we told a few close family members, but we didn't go much beyond that. A few weeks ago I was contacted by the mother of one of Amelia's classmates. Their daughter was turning 4 and in lieu of birthday presents, they wanted to raise money for our cause. I was touched by her generosity and realized I needed to do more.
We are called to be the voice for the voiceless, so I am asking again. I have emailed friends and neighbors and am again putting in a request. If you would like to contribute to this worthwhile cause, please send checks made out to Our Family Adoptions to our home. We are planning to mail the checks to the agency on February 15th, so please hurry. If you do not feel you are able to contribute financially, then please take a moment to pray. Please pray for hope for the millions of children worldwide who remain voiceless in the midst of extreme poverty and global injustice.
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Thank you for doing this! We all need to be aware of the lack of clean water available to much of the world. The IRC has a very telling photo showing water that was taken from Lake Cariari in Chad and then showing the same water after being filtered and treated for safe use. Copy and paste this link to see the photo...
http://blog.theirc.org/2009/01/14/a-picture-worth-a-thousand-words/
Imagine if we had to serve this filthy water to our children.
Thank you for your efforts!
What a great thing to do! So simple and to important. I'd like to put a link to this post on my blog and was wondering if you can put the link from Cami's comment in your blog. I can't quite see the whole link to see the pictures. Praying for great success!
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