In Africa one of the greatest struggles is obtaining water. Periods of drought will destroy crops and kill livestock. Clean drinking water is very difficult to obtain in remote areas. People will often draw their water from creeks whose water is  absolutely brown with silt. The hauling of water is a daily chore for a vast part of the population.

One day we were travelling in eastern Kenya and we visited a local school. As we walked through the playground we saw dozens of pop bottles, jars and small plastic containers each filled with about a cup of water. When I enquired about the collection I was informed that the school had no water so each child had to bring a cup of water with them each morning for admittance into the school. These children would often have to walk great distances to obtain that needed water.

In Machackos we were visiting another of our orphanages and saw all the children hiking down to the river about ¼ mile from the home and bringing back a pail of water. This water they would use to clean themselves each day. Sickness and disease could be dramatically reduced in Africa if we could only obtain clean uncontaminated water for the children.