Why Participate in the Walk and Why Encourage Others to Give?

Over a billion people in the developing world have no clean water.

No clean water to drink or to wash their hands or their food


2.4 billion people have no adequate sanitation.

Because people do not have access to clean water they have...

• limited educational opportunities
• limited economic opportunities
• poverty
• disease
• death

Unsafe water and lack of sanitation kills nearly TWO MILLION PEOPLE each year. 

More people are dying from easily preventable water-borne diseases than are dying from AIDS.  

Most of the people who die from water-borne diseases are children under the age of five with one person dying every 8 seconds.

Diarrhea is the leading killer of children in Sub Saharan Africa. A baby born in Africa is 520 times more likely to die of diarrhea than a child born in Europe. 

2 in 5 people in sub Saharan Africa lack safe water.

East Africa is in a 5-year drought, and the lack of water has led to the death of 500,000 cattle, conflict, and food shortages..

About the Need for Water

We desire to give hope to and to relieve the suffering of people in villages throughout Sub-Saharan Africa by making clean water sources available to them.  

Clean water makes possible the education of young girls and the gainful employment and industry of women who would otherwise spend hours a day searching for water --any water,  even disease laden water. 

We know to give the gift of clean water is a wonderful thing, but to offer with it the Living Water, the Lord Jesus Christ, will have eternal impact.  

Matthew 10:42, "And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no 
means lose his reward."