Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Another great water video - Brought to you by Compassion International

I don't know how many of you are familiar with Compassion International. It is one of the "child sponsorship" organizations. For $32 per month, you can help provide a child education, health, personal development and spiritual growth.

As an organization, Compassion focuses on the "spiritual growth" piece of their mission directly, and they do it well. They outsource the education and health pieces to organizations that can help them with those parts of their mission. That is where the relationship between Compassion International and Healing Waters International comes in.

One of the key aspects of providing health care and education to children is a source of safe drinking water. Without safe drinking water, kids become sick (health) and miss school due to their illness (education.) Compassion partners with Healing Waters to install water purification systems in the Compassion Childhood Development centers. 18 of our 68 systems are installed in Compassion centers, providing a free source of safe drinking water to the kids while they are at the center and a source of safe drinking water to their families while the kids are at home!

Healing Waters loves its partnership with Compassion International, and we hope to continue to grow and build that partnership over time. In fact, the next water system that we install in Mexico will be at a Compassion center and will actually serve four additional Compassion centers in the area through a system of safe drinking water deposits. Really cool stuff!

Compassion put together the video below to illustrate the drinking water problem. . . enjoy!

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