Miracle of Water - Bring hope to Ghana!

Please donate and bring health, happiness and hope to desperate families today.   Our goal is to build 4 water wells in the 4 surrounding villages of Enchi, Ghana and provide clean water to more than 8,000 people.        Dear Reader,   Water is essential to life.    Water is different than anything else...it is even more basic than food. There is a difference between what people eat and the way they live in a house, but there is no difference in what they need to drink. A person could live several days without food, but only a few days without water.    In Ghana they walk for miles for water.   Enchi is a small village located in the south-west corner of Ghana and is occupied by about 8,000 people in the surrounding villages. These people get their source of water from River Dusue. Due to pollution, the water is not good for drinking.  The District Assembly through the European Union has provided the town with a Water System which is not adequate and most of the time the system will get shut off for days or weeks making it difficult for the people to get water.   In such situation, people turn to getting water from the polluted River Dusue.   The children are suffering...   From malaria... river blindness... bilharzia... Painful, dangerous diseases. All directly related to drinking polluted water, the only water available in their West African village.   Today the women and children in these West African villages will get up before dawn, walk miles and hours to the nearest river, and pray there is clean water to collect and carry home.   These children and families desperately need our help to gain access to clean drinking water.   We have launched an emergency appeal to help bring clean water to our brothers and sisters in Christ in Enchi, Ghana. Immaculate Conception parish (in Enchi) received one water system and hundreds of good, hard-working families and children have been given hope!   Mamme Yas Adutwiwaa, a member of Immaculate Conception parish, shared with us that before Catholic World Mission paid for a well to be built at Enchi Catholic School she would walk two miles for three buckets of drinking water.   She shared, "My children were always tired, they felt sick, they could not concentrate in school. I am lucky to have a little business in town, but often I could not open until late because I spent many hours of the day in search of water." "Now with this water system we can get water anytime... it is a miracle for us. My children go to school early and they are no longer tired and feeling sick all the time. They are doing well in school and are so much happier. I can attend Mass in the morning and get to the market early, and my business is doing much better. All of this is because of the water system." "I thank all those who help Catholic World Mission who brought clean water to my family. I pray that other communities will benefit from more wells."   Because of one water system, hundreds of good, hard-working mothers like Maame are now free to use their time and energy to provide income to their struggling families. More women in the parish are now starting to play important roles in community leadership. They're starting new businesses. Children in the parish are no longer spending six hours a day in search of water. Instead, they're attending school, learning and laughing and building futures like all children should. Can you see why I'm so desperately hoping and praying along with Maame that we can deliver this same miracle of clean water to nearly 8,000 more children and families in four more villages in the region?                    With all my heart, thank you for bringing health, happiness and hope to families in desperate need, and please submit your prayer intentions to me here. It's an honor and a privilege!   Yours in Christ,

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