A new study says that there will be 779,000 deaths due to cholera in Haiti this year. Doesn’t that break your heart? Last week an examination revealed that the U.N. dumping waste caused much of the cholera. Doesn’t that mess up your mind? Helping shouldn’t hurt.
I’m in Haiti now with a team of students installing water purification systems. It won’t solve the problem, but there will be a lot more people able to get some clean water. I especially have been concerned about all the children we sponsor at CRF. They have been drinking very contaminated water.
Here’s how I define a rich kid these days. If a child has clean water that won’t kill him, he is a rich kid by the standards of the world today.
I know we can’t save everyone or get clean water to everyone. I know we can’t stop the cholera epidemic, but we can do something.
My major professor in seminary told me of his first trip to Calcutta to deliver a few thousand pounds of grain. He was overwhelmed with the poverty as he literally had to step over dead bodies on the street. He felt so small and his help so insignificant. In his discouragement, his mentor told him—“People are born one at a time, people live one at a time, and people die one at a time. You have to start somewhere with someone.”
