DRILLING WATER WELLS
I saw with my own eyes the way people drink and wash themselves with brown water, with a terrible smell. But they have no choice. Diseases from polluted drinking water and terrible sanitation kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Children are especially vulnerable because their bodies are not strong enough to fight diarrhea, dysentery, and other diseases.
In my life, I am used to seeing children who ask for toys, ask for phones or sweets, but I have never seen hundreds of children who ask for a bottle of water, which they then share among themselves. When you give them a bottle, you smile at them, but something inside you collapses. After all, they don't know that there is another world where you almost never feel thirsty. Where you don't have to walk several miles from your home in order to draw dirty water from a well or the nearest river. There is a world where you can simply open a tap, and the water is already there. According to statistics, at the moment there are 800 million people living in the world who do not have access to clean water. And when these dry statistics come to life before your eyes, you realize, with a lump in your throat, that it is impossible to change the whole world, but it is possible to change the world of one person.
This is what we tried to do when we decided to drill a deep well with water in the village of Kazuramimba and Masimba– to change the world of at least one person.
On each well, we placed a sign that says: "Jesus is living water" and a quote from Scripture:
“Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 4:13-14
I believe that many residents of these villages will come and drink water from these wells. Many of them are people of another faith, witches, non-believers and every time they fetch this water, they will read the Gospel from the message that says "Jesus is living water." I believe one day they will become part of the church, where their lives will be transformed and their thirst will be quenched not only physically, but also spiritually.