Day 5 - Microenterprise

Day 5 – Microenterprise Clean water isn’t the only thing Water Missions provides to the communities they work with. There has got to be more. We’ve only been to five villages, and two of them have had water systems implemented in the past that have failed, leaving those communities with a sense of failure and abandonment. If you were to go to the doctor because you were sick and they gave you medicine, you’d continue to go back to that doctor to seek healing for your sickness. But, if the doctor taught you how to avoid getting sick, you’d be more apt to protect yourself from sickness in the future. In the same way, Water Missions isn’t trying to prescribe a pill and leave it at that. They’re addressing the root of the problem, and they train the people of the community to avoid...

Day 4 - Musubi

Day 4 - Musubi12/7/2011As I woke up yesterday morning, I didn't know what my day was going to be like. Our program for the day said we were going to Musubi, the community that received a water purification system from the Change for Change fundraiser. Mixed emotions jumbled my mind as I thought about what everything was going to be like. It's been such a humbling experience already, being in Uganda, but the people Darryl and I were about to meet were given a new chance at life because of the water system we helped provide.On our way to Musubi, we rode on some of the WORST "roads" I've ever been on. It was a two hour drive of my head bouncing and bobbling. As we pulled onto the dusty path that they call "Musubi Highway", I was just overwhelmed...