Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth. Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource. ”Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.” Ban Ki-moon.
Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There’s undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children. This bitter truth forced us as Church management team to buy five donkeys to a group of caregivers from an area known as Muvinge where there is an acute water scarcity! They leave for water fetching at 4am and they normally get back home at 10am having fetched water on their backs! Six hours of toiling and moiling! We issued those donkeys on Friday 16th of October 2020. The 15 caregivers couldn’t believe it! Some had to shed tears of overwhelming joy. We purchased those donkeys using monthly support and under domestic assistance sub-account. They will be relieved from carrying jericans of water on their backs, their time frame to and from the river will reduce. And they will use those donkeys to generate income as a group e.g. fetching water and sand for both domestic use and commercial purposes in exchange of cash.
