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Dirty water for now — but clean water is in the works

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Dirty water for now — but clean water is in the works | World Vision Blog
Water: It’s such a simple thing, but if you don’t have enough, it takes over your life. That’s what 13-year-old Zinhle Dlamini told me. Getting water for her family in rural Swaziland is a two-hour-per-day chore. And the dirty water they get is not nearly enough for all the drinking, cooking, cleaning, and bathing for a household of 10 people....
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Q&A with our clean water expert in Uganda

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Q&A with our clean water expert in Uganda | World Vision Blog
Leading up to World Water Day on March 22, we’re going to do a series of posts about our work in the area of water and sanitation, giving you some ideas of how to get involved. Back in November, I got to see some of our clean water programs in northern Uganda, a place that is still scarred by decades of brutal civil war with Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). I never knew how complex the solution to the problem of clean water could be — but I got to learn from some experts and ask a lot of questions. One of the most informative conversations I had was with John Steifel, World Vision’s Uganda water, sanitation, and hygiene...
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Fast facts on child health

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Fast facts on child health | World Vision Blog
I’m at that phase in life when a lot of my friends are having babies. Within six weeks, I will have gone to three baby showers! I’m thinking about how many prenatal doctor appointments women have in the United States — and how many checkups and appointments most newborns have in their first year of life. But what if there was no doctor to visit? No hospital or nearby clinic? No family doctor or trained midwife? What would happen? Maternal and child mortality rates would go up....
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Famine in Somalia is officially over, but…

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Famine in Somalia is officially over | World Vision Blog
Of course, I’m happy that the United Nations has declared an end to the famine in Somalia. This is encouraging news, considering that six regions of the country were designated as famine zones last July. However, an estimated 2 million people still face serious food shortages in Somalia. Our work in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa is nowhere near done....
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“Be a person who is love”

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Be a person who is love | World Vision Blog
Have you ever met someone who just radiates the love, light, and peace of God? Last month, while traveling in Swaziland, I had the privilege of meeting Nomsa, a World Vision volunteer AIDS caregiver. She is one of those people — so full of the love of God that it can’t help but spill out to those around her. This Valentine’s Day, I wanted to share her story. Nomsa presented me with a new way of looking at 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV): “Love is patient, love is kind…it always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” In a society that often equates the word “love” with romantic love, I had forgotten that this verse is talking about the way we...
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