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Challenge: Start with a small bottle of water. As you slowly drink it, consider those millions without pure & accessible water. Then place back into the bottle a $10 bill. Do this each week, for 7 weeks, until the end of ‘08. Send the funds you gather to:

Compassion Corps
PO Box 103
Chester Heights, PA 19017
With the help of just 100 people, we will be able to put well caps & manual pumps on 2 existing wells in Mali in January ‘09.
Double this and we will be able to provide a village without a well with a complete new one!

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Compassion Corps has the amazing opportunity to help with water issues in 3 different villages representing 3 different people groups. Two of the villages, Alla Amgalalay & Sanfil Kabara, have wells that are in need of manual pumps. Presently the women lower an animal skin bag down into the well over and over again to bring up the water needed to fill their buckets. A manual pump covering the well will not only protect the precious water inside from dirt and animal droppings, but it will allow the women to more quickly gather the water they need for a day’s work.

In Toumbouz, one of the largest and most strategic camps outside of Timbuktu, there is need for a well and a pump to be installed. Because the water table in these desert areas is very high, finding water will not be a problem at all. But funds are needed for the drilling of the well and installation of the well and pump. Compassion Corps has committed to seeking out donors whose hearts lead them to give this most precious of gifts…pure, drinkable, wonderful water.

Our call to compassion is this: Help some of those 73% of people in Mali that do not have access to this vitally important resource…WATER! Help a child see his or her sixth birthday. Help a mother have time to get literacy and vocational training instead of spending so many hours in search of water. Help a father provide for his family through a garden that produces vegetables because it is well irrigated.

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Fadilla is a teenage girl who has lived with her large family in very poor conditions in the outskirts of a North African village. She works for one of our partner families who operate a children’s home for orphans and abandoned children. Fadilla is trying to finish her high school education and works to be able to pay the fees that are incurred as her family is too poor to help her. Her work also helps to support her family.

Fadilla and her family have been living in a meager little rented house, but two years ago the owner of the house demanded that they leave the property. Fadilla’s father is unemployed and tries to support his family by selling little oddities. Through this and by selling some of the family’s sheep he has been able to purchase a small piece of property in a nearby village. He has been trying to build a room or two on the site and has managed to get to window height. However, now the owner of the property where they currently live has ordered them off his property by the end of August. The family cannot yet move into the house, and their funds are limited at best.

The family for whom Fadilla works has decided to help them rent a small house even though their own funds are very few. It is part of their way to invest into the lives of their neighbors and love them as Jesus would. They can only afford to do this for about 6 months which will give Fadilla’s family a chance to finish building their home.

Fadilla has attended the Compassion Corps’ women’s ministry classes for the past 3 years. She is a very fast learner and she quickly mastered the basics of crocheting. Within just a couple of months, Fadilla taught herself how to make little pocketbooks. As teams came over with other materials, Fadilla added things like beads and sequins to her designs, and this past year, she has begun designing crocheted clothing! She sells her creations to help support her family and it is a thrill to see what she has learned and how resourceful she is!