As you give thanks for the gifts in your life, we’d like to introduce you to Kebedech. Good health, an education, a vegetable garden, a job, time to spend with those you love - ready access to clean water makes these and so many other things possible.
Kebedech Hagos, a mother of young children and the main provider for her family, used to walk three hours each day to fetch a single jug of water in her village of Guetelo, Ethiopia. During the dry season, the river would dry up.
Thanks to our donors, Kebedech now only walks five minutes from her home to the new village well. The water is clean and ample. Her children are healthier and attend school regularly. With wastewater from the new well, she grows vegetables in her yard. This provides food for her family and she sells the surplus for income. She even has time to participate in the government’s food-for-work program. “Water is our life,” says Kebedech.
Kebedech’s story has a happy ending. But there are 884 million people still in need of clean water throughout the world. You have the power to transform — or even save – the life of someone without clean water. It only takes $25 to bring one person clean water for life. For $150, you can provide clean water to an entire family.
On behalf of Kebedech and all of those we serve, thank you for giving clean water to those in need!
