This year for the fast at my church we are raising money and awareness about water. Many places especially in Africa don't have sufficient water to stay healthy. The water they drink is filled with Parasites and Pollution and causes blindness and Diarrhea. One child dies every 15 seconds from water related diseases, and that is 10,000 every single day! We are raising money to build wells in certain villages, and to educate the people about how to be more sanitary. 15 dollars can give clean water to one person for a whole year. My church is doing two things to help this cause out. One is we are doing a water challenge for two weeks where we fast from all beverages except water to see how important water is. We are starting this Feb. 15th and going till the 1st of March. The second thing we are doing is fasting for 30 hours like we do every year for different causes, and this fast is on the 28th of Feb. If you would like to join us on your own feel free. If you want more information on the H2O challenge and learn how you can help people who have water problems then head to this website: http://www.theh2oproject.org/. You will learn a lot and may even be a little shocked!
Be Grateful for what you have because it could be gone in and instant!
Love Always
Audrey
3 comments:
That's way cool, I've been reading this book called "They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky". It tells a lot about some of the conditions in Africa and really gives you a new perspective on our lives, we have it pretty dang nice
Sounds like a good project for you guys to work on, i wish you the best of luck with it. Hopefully see you all soon. and maybe even keep me posted on how this goes :)
-Brett Schibler
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