Mike and I read this story and just shook our heads. We have cases of clean water in our garage. But this family? When they reach for a plastic bottle, it’s one that’s been used, tossed on the roadside, crushed by trucks…soaked in dust.
They don’t drink from them… they collect them.
Little hands digging through piles of trash.
Carrying dusty bottles home in torn bags.
A full kilogram earns pennies. It takes nearly 600 bottles to make a single dollar… and somehow, that’s what they live on.
At just eight years old, Pauline spent most days working with her mom in other people’s gardens under the hot sun, hoping to earn a little food. Pauline missed school constantly. Her brothers, 14 and 9, roamed the village collecting bottles to help the family survive.
At the Jericho village well, a new area we’ve been ministering in, families gathered around the fresh water. Pauline and her mom heard their friend Helen testify that God healed her after prayer and drinking from the clean well (click here to read that story.)
Pauline whispered, “If God healed her, He can change my story too.”
Little did she know, her story would change through the Show Mercy sponsorship program… and her youngest brother is next in line.
In just the last few months, we’ve add over 300 children, like Pauline, who have found hope through our program, thanks to supporters like you.
That’s 300 stories in the making. And we all get to be part of it.
Your gift pulls the next child out of survival mode and into hope. Today…will you help us reach the one who’s still waiting?
Thank you for Living on Purpose with US!
Mike and Lori Salley
Founders
