Ethiopia I love you

It's true, I love Ethopia. I love the people, I love the countryside, I love the amazing history of thousands of years, I love the wildlife, I love the flowers and stately trees, I love the avocado mango juice! But I don't love the poverty and the great needs of so many people. I want to fix it, I want to make a difference in lots of lives.... but I can only do my part to help.

I hope you have had time to look at the pictures I have posted on Facebook. I put them up so everyone can look. Even if they are not a "friend" of mine. Please take a moment and view them as if you yourself lived there. As if you yourself had to drink the water and wear the tired and dirty clothes. As if you had to wash your clothes and your body in the brown dirty water.... meaning your clothes and hair and skin are never clean and you are always sick with diarrhea.

The people of Ethiopia are amazingly resilient and hard workers. So many live in poverty with very little to live on. Mud huts and stick homes are the norm, apartment buildings and homes as we know them are few and far between. Our partners, who may live in apartment buildings still have to do their laundry by hand and cook all their food from scratch. Just to make the bread staple, Injera, takes 3 days.

A friend suggested that I should put my pictures on note cards to help raise money for the project in Ethiopia and I think that is a great idea. SO.. if you are interested in something like that just let me know what pictures you would like on your cards and I will work on making it happen. email me at
ms.lisazisa@gmail.com

As you can see by the pictures I have posted on Facebook; water is a great need and along with it training in basic hygiene, water management and sanitation. Yes, open deification is very prevalent not just animals, but people too. Somehow, over the last generations, these very basic habits have been lost. In talking to our partners they are aware and very puzzled as to what happened and when. But they are committed to working hard to make the tide turn!

The project that Lifewater is doing in Southern Ethiopia is almost fully funded. One of the stipulations of the grant is that for every $8.00 funded Lifewater needs to raise $1.00.... Maybe you could consider making a donation to help reach that goal?

Lifewater has recently been blessed with the ability to upgrade the website - here you can read lots of information and stories about projects and see the progress of what is happening. I hope you will look often.

As you can tell, my heart has really been grabbed by the needs of people around the world, I was so humbled and felt so sad when I thought of all I have at home. We are truly a rich people.