This well project was inspired about a year and a half ago. I had been to South Africa once, held a birthday party fundraiser for a garden, and was planning a return trip. By the second trip the garden was planted and it was feeding several dozens a week, mainly women and children. A couple of months after that trip I learned that the garden was failing. All the money and hours that had gone into this outreach was literally drying up from a few issues, lack of water being the main one. I was devastated. That night I cried angry tears. The next day I began re-reading a book by Bob Goff entitled "Love Does". In my favorite chapter of the book Bob talks about how after 9/11 his children had the idea to write letters to governmental leaders all across the globe. The really crazy part? The leaders wrote back. I realized these leaders had email addresses that I began to fill with information about what was going on in Phakane and how I needed their help. The minister of water not only returned my email but sent an official response saying they would easily remedy this by installing a well. While this was shockingly helpful, the short version of the story is that it has to be done locally for it to be trusted. So, the goal is to employ a local vote digger to dig the well. Will you help us? Every donation is tax deductible and will go directly to helping us dig the well. You can be part of something that will affect generations to come. Maybe you want to make a donation in someone's honor or for Christmas???
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