Carrying Water: Make it Personal

I think charity: water does some good work. One of the coolest things they do is bring you closer to the people they help with pictures, stories and videos. One of my favorite videos is this little 5-minute clip taken when charity: water was drilling wells in Ethiopia this spring as part of the Twestival.

In the video a few Internet geeks decide to carry 5-gallon jerry cans on their backs just like the people of Ethiopia do every day. Obviously carrying that water didn’t help anybody, but it made those well-off Americans understand what not having clean water really means. It made the situation personal (and painful), something Shane Claiborne often talks about (Don’t make poverty history, make poverty personal).

At the very end of the video they show an 11-year-old girl carrying the same 5 gallons of water. She does that every day. You can help change that.

Walking with Water – Twestival Drill Day 2 – charity: water from Ethiopia from charity: water on Vimeo.

This is actually something I’ve [rather foolishly] thought about trying.

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