clean water.
Our family has been in Uganda for 4 1/2 weeks now. We're settled into the village where we are living and though I've been posting snippets of our time here on my instagram , I wanted to tell you more about the water situation here. Clean water is something that captured my heart years ago. It's something that I've always taken for granted--we turn on the faucet in America and we get clean water. I love long showers. Sometimes, I don't even turn off the water when I brush my teeth. We water our grass to keep it green, turn on sprinklers for the kids to run through, and even spray out our garages & driveways with water. When our son, Nico, took me to a village that he had once stayed in to show me their water source, my heart was broken. Every man, woman and child in that village was using swamp water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and caring for their livestock. Swamp water. Though we rejoic...
