Water on Christmas

SIERRA LEONE – Mahera, #4 Aku Town Road
GPS: 08 36.220 N, 013 11.840 W
Almost everyone who celebrates Christmas has at least one: a memory of that extra-special Christmas gift that stands out among the forgotten piles of torn wrapping paper. Maybe you especially …

Blessed with persistence

Three years ago, an LWI team attempted to bring clean water to Los Bahiles, a community in the highlands of Guatemala located in the middle of a volcanic valley 8,200 feet above sea level. The hand dug water wells that served as the community’s sole source of water …

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Slavery, Water, Vision: Conspiracy

There are these moments in life where you feel like a corner of the veil is lifted and a waft of divine dream rushes in. This is about one of those moments. It’s about the Advent Conspiracy. It’s about six regular people standing on an African beach. It’s …

Misery in Marsabit

People in Marsabit District of Northern Kenya live on the edge of life. The land is dry; the people are poor; life is hard. Where there is water, people build a few buildings and call it a town. Sometimes, the water comes from rain-catchment ponds; other times, it …

Transformation in Peru

In the Winter 2008 issue of Pipeline, LWI’s Tommy Head reported on his experiences drilling wells in the Amazon Jungle of Peru (see Opening the Door to the Candoshi, Winter 2008). The Candoshi Indians on the Chapuri River are “by far – culturally, geographically, …

Prayer Letter: Spring 2009

Dear praying friends,
What do refugee camps in Central Africa, remote communities in southern Asia, and villages in the jungles of South America have in common? For the most part, they lack access to clean, safe drinking water. The people who live in these places …

The end is really the beginning.

LIBERIA – Kormah Town, Mt. Barclay GPS: 06 22.215 N, 010 40.536 W In the center of Kormah Town are the charred remains of a cement block house, a skeletal reminder of the terrible civil war that drove many of these people from their homes. There is only a vague …

Bringing water, building bridges

INDIA – Meet Mathew. He is a full-time missionary to the prisons in Kerala, a state in southern India. Now in his fifties, he has been doing this work for many years. He feels that it suits him—years ago, he was a convict himself.
Although he has spent much of his …

Something to smile about.

SIERRA LEONE - Kissitown United Nations Refugee Camp Section H, Police Stop, New Road, Waterloo
GPS: 08 20.108 N, 013 02.351 W

Why are these children smiling? Well, for one thing, they now have access to clean drinking water. Even better than that, though, is the fact …

Photo Feature: Anatomy of a water project

RWANDA - You may have read and heard stories of villages, hospitals, schools, and orphanages where water projects have been completed. You have probably seen photos of what life is like before and after communities have clean water to drink. Have you ever wondered what …

Peace Community

LIBERIA – Peace Community, Mt. Barclay
GPS: 06.20 503 N, 010 39.490 W
Imagine risking your life every day for a chance to drink dirty water that will most likely make you sick. That’s exactly what the women and children of Peace Community had to do before …

A Nameless Tragedy

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