What a busy morning: I cooked breakfast, set the dishwasher, put two loads of wash in the machine, and took a long hot shower. Notice anything in common with all these tasks? They involved water. Clear, clean water. How easy it was for me to reach for the faucet or push a button.

It struck me because of an eye-opening experience last summer when Wayne and I were in Kenya. I was able to visit the home of a Kenyan woman who proudly served me tea. Little did I know that for her to get the water to brew my tea she had to walk a mile to a dry river bed and dig down until she found water. After she’d filled her small bucket, she had to carry it back another mile to her home.

There is much work to be done to bring clean water to the developing world. World Vision is making a difference in so many ways, including reaching one new person with clean water every 30 seconds.

If you’d like to read more about Veronica and our tea time in Kenya, I wrote about it in a blog for World Vision (click here).