A pick-me-up story (not political).
A man from Zimbabwe has been helping out at our church as an associate while he is here with his famility on some sort of educational fellowship (I'm not sure of those details). A month ago, after Zoom church, he presented a slide show about the struggles his home village has gone through to keep itself supplied with water. Several water sources had dried up over the years, some intermittently, some permanently. When he was a child (he has teen children now), he and his school mates would spend many hours fetching water twice a day from a source several miles from their home. They've continued to do that.
Over the last few years efforts have been made to drill a well near the village. Three attempts ended in failure. Then, this fall, they struck water just a few feet from his mother's home. They needed to raise $5000 very quickly to take the next step to construct a well. Within two weeks we had raised $7000 and so they can now proceed and, in addition, build an irrigation system for the community garden.
It's not often you get so much bang for the buck so quickly!!! What joy!
las
P.S. Got an update that as of today we've raised $12,000.
At the suggestion of GoneOffShore in this thread, I'm posting this link. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Zimbabwe-Water-Project.html?soid=1101834822506&aid=8-ZMWqFSsx8
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Great story! So happy your church was able to help them and then some! 
