About the Cause
All proceeds benefit the Indiana Chapter of Widow's Mite Experience and go directly toward building water wells in underdeveloped nations. Here's why:
Health
According tothe World Health Organization, 80% of sickness and disease around the world is due to lack of safe drinking water. Diseases such as cholera, typhoid, roundworm, hepatitis and dysentery can be contracted by simply drinking water. Often the only water source in a village is a contaminated cesspool in the ground, replete with insects, trash and matter from humans and animals. Life cannot be sustained without water, and women have no choice but to draw water from the only sources available knowing that the diseases lurking there can, and do, kill their children.
Crimes against Women
In parts of Africa, where the AIDS virus is epidemic and tribal mentality still prevails, men seek the “wisdom” of witch doctors to cure AIDS. These men are told that having sexual relations with a young virgin will cure them. In these tribal areas, it is women who are responsible for getting water and often have to walk miles to the nearest water source. They must take their small daughters with them. While walking, the girls are ambushed and raped. Now as difficult as this is to grasp, think about having no choice but to take your children on a dangerous daily journey knowing that your young daughters risk that kind of brutality.
Hunger
Drilling wells supplies water for crops, therefore villages are able to furnish food for people as well as sell food to others.
Poverty
By selling produce the villagers can become self sustaining financially, helping to create and maintain jobs within the village.
Education
When wells are drilled the Word of God is preached to educate the village about the love of Jesus and what He did on the cross for each of us!
When we were confronted with these realities, we knew we had to do something. We had to bring hope. Hope by bringing life giving, clean water but also hope by bringing Living Water. Hope by bringing the precious Word of God to people who had never heard the Gospel. We had to share the hope of Jesus Christ and with a well we could share His tangible love as well. This concept is simple yet profound… giving hope and changing lives, drop by drop and cup by cup.
