Blood Water Mission Project

For years we have been hearing about the overwhelming needs in the continent of Africa. But it's hard to hear numbers like "24 million people in Sub-Sahara Africa region alone are living with HIV" and be completely unable to connect with those kinds of figures.
For many, it seems impossible to make a difference in a problem that staggering, but now we have learned how to make make a big difference with an easy sacrifice. It's simple, $1 can save a life.

After doing a little research we wanted to get down to what the key needs are for the survival of common everyday people in Africa.
It's Simple Clean Blood and Clean Water. We then found out that the HIV and AIDS virus was actually making its way back into what little water supply many villages have by way of sewage making its way back into the water supply.
So how is this fixed?
We found out that for $3000 we could have a well built by a trusted organization that would provide water for an entire village. That's a minimum of 750 people.

In fact some formulas tell us that $1 will provide clean water for one person for an entire year!

ONE DOLLAR can provide water free of the HIV virus, water free of parasites and bacteria that cause AIDS patients and others undue suffering. It is also difficult to deny the equation: $1= clean water for 1 person for 1 year.

For the teens of The Refuge, we simply find it unacceptable to not do something about it.
We call it "Easy Big." It's a chance to do something that's of no real cost to us, to save a life today.

We're also not satisfied with just being involved with far away places. That's why the teenagers of "The Refuge" have committed to building a clean - safe public playground and a fully redesigned multi-purpose meeting area for teenagers that will be used to house spiritual services and soon a cutting-edge 12 step recovery program for kids 12 to 19 dealing with drinking, drugs, and other dependencies.

We have a passion for helping others and it's truly a rare occurrence to see teenagers think of anything so big and so outside of themselves. Can you imagine the typical teenager willing to give up a week of their summer to live in an old church building in order to rebuild a community area, and raise money for the desperate of a place that they have never seen? What if I also told you that they are planning on going out to Africa in two years for no other purpose, but to help people put their lives back together?
Would you help?
Would you give up a Starbucks if that coffee would provide clean water for 4 people for an entire year?

If you think you can help, join us in our journey.

Sincerely,

Tom Gibson

Our Base Church: North Pointe Baptist Church in Warren, MI www.northpointeonline.com
Our Partner Organization: Blood:Water Mission www.bloodwatermission.org