Conviction

I am finding it difficult to find the words to describe the level of poverty and pollution that these people live with on a daily basis. This morning I had a conversation with a team member who described a photo opportunity she had missed. It was a beautiful purple flower growing in the middle of a huge heap of refuse and trash.

I feel this image perfectly describes the children we met today. We delivered 3 bio-filters to a rural school. This was an area of the most severe poverty I had witnessed. As we pulled up to the school, there was a beautiful bush of coral and pink flowers growing around a dilapidated building. The children came out to greet us. Their school uniforms, which all the children here wear, matched the bushes but in plaid. The were clean, well groomed, and very well behaved. The beauty of the children was in stark contrast to their surroundings.

The children showed us where thier current source of water is. It was a community hand pump a couple of feet away from a streams that could barely flow past all of the garbage.

I was brought to tears, and strongly convicted in the necessity of the project. I am certain God brought me here to return home and help to promote Pure Water for the World in any way I can. I wish I had a better internet connection so I could post some of the photos, but it will have to wait until I return home.