Malawi Shallow Wells Project:

Did you know that most of Malawi has no fresh drinking water? Did you know that digging a well in a village just 5 feet below the drought line is enough to insure that village with water forever???? So, the real question is: Why not?

Shallow wells are cost effective at only $350.00 each for an entire village of 100-300 people. Imagine clean drinking water for their lifetimes. They are locally built and maintained so that if a part breaks it is easily fixed by the people of the village. Having clean drinking water allows families to invest their time and talent in producing food, generating small businesses, etc. instead of trudging miles for contaminated water and taking sick children to clinics. In one area of Malawi there is only one doctor for 60,000 people and that doctor is a dentist. So, clean drinking water is critical.

                                                

You can get involved with a very small commitment. You can either buy a whole well for $350 or give some money toward a well. When we have accumulated $350 the money will be sent off to build a well. Just make out your check to Market Street Presbyterian Church and indicate Shallow Wells. In 2009, we reached our Mission Team goal of collecting enough funds to build 36 new wells!

You don't have to be wealthy to give people a chance at life! Water is the very basic element in all of our lives. Imagine not being able to turn on the faucet and have clean drinking water. Imagine not being able to wash your clothing in your own washer/dryer or at a laundromat because there is no water. Our life as we know it would be vastly different. So are the lives of those individuals that we help by building shallow wells.

I urge you to consider not only giving to the Shallow Wells project, but come next Christmas (2010) consider spending as much money on others as you spend on your own family. In other words, if you, like most American families spend $800 on Christmas between your whole family, set aside an additional $800 to be given to Shallow Wells, or Heifer Project International, or World Vision, etc. (Or, if that isn't possible, cut the family portion down to $400 and give $400 to others.) Is this a radical idea? Yes. Does it work? Yes. And as we change the world we are also changed.

Come be a part of something bigger than yourself! While our 2009 Mission Project has been completed by reaching our goal of funding 36 new wells, we are still accepting  funding toward additonal wells. 


                          
                                                                


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