Category Archives: Causes

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

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Rachael Dill Boyer in Causes

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....

Q&A with our clean water expert in Uganda

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Rachael Dill Boyer in Causes

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...

Fast facts on child health

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Rachael Dill Boyer in Causes

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....

Churches join together to stop a deadly night predator

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Guest blogger in Causes, Partnerships

Jeff Farmer Sr., retired president of Open Bible Churches, shares a story of how the Lord challenged him with the reality of suffering caused by malaria, and how this sparked his passion to see the future changed. Read his story, and learn more about how you can be involved....

The malaria scare

Posted on February 16, 2012 by James Addis in Causes

People like me, who thought the world was winning the war against malaria, might have gotten a rude awakening earlier this month following the release of a report by researchers at the University of Washington....