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Lifetime Wells International Year End Fundraising Campaign

#SixInSix - Help us raise $31,500 in Six weeks to drill Nine wells in Northern Ghana!

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132 Supporters

111% of $42,000 goal

Mark Taber

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$5,065

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375% of $1,350 goal

Mark Taber's Story

Hi Friends. 

The organization I am fortunate to be a part of, Lifetime Wells International, is in the midst of our first-ever "Year-End" Fundraising campaign, and I need your help. We have set an ambitious goal to raise $21,000 to fund six wells in Northern Ghana over the next six weeks. We're calling it our #SixInSix campaign, and I am excited to see what we're able to do with your support.

(Christine and me eating Guinea Hen at the drill site)

I had the privilege to travel to Ghana in August to meet our in-country team, visit communities that have already benefited from your support and see the conditions in villages we haven't yet reached. One of those communities visited was Borgbaln located in the Northern District of Saboba. Like much of the northern part of the country, the residents of Borgbaln face the harsh realities of living in extreme poverty. They are subsistence farmers who live in a remote area of the country and lack even the most basic infrastructure.

(Typical village in rural Ghana, round mud huts with thatched roofs)

When we were asked to visit the village, Borgbaln was in the midst of a Typhoid outbreak. At the time, nine people had been taken to the hospital, and one child had already died. The water they were drinking was literally killing them. It was a tough visit for me, seeing first-hand the impact of drinking dirty water; but my discomfort is nothing compared to the daily living conditions they endure. The Chief of the village wanted to know if we could do something to help them.

(This water is used for cleaning, washing, watering the animals and drinking) 

Guess What?

There was something we could do!  Now that the rainy season has ended, our drilling rig is in the Saboba region and making it's way to Borgbaln. Soon, our team will be providing the community with a safe water source they so desperately need.

What I think is awesome about this story is disease and death caused by dirty water won't happen here again. The people of Borgbaln will have clean water, and the children growing up now will not remember a day when they had to drink water from a filthy pond.

This is why I started working for LWI, to do what  I can to help those who don't have a voice. However, I realize that nothing we do would be possible without the help of friends like you:

  • Friends who have donated to the cause and keep our drilling team going.
  • Friends who have started water-walks, raising funds to sponsor entire well projects.
  • Friends who have liked, shared, tweeted and retweeted to spread the word about the work we're doing.

As we head into the end of the year, we pause in November to remember why we are thankful. When I stop to count my blessings, my trip to Ghana reminds me that there are so many things for which to be thankful.

Having clean water no more than a few steps away is one of the things I have taken for granted, because I've never known a time when my drinking water wasn't safe.

How cool is this?

Someday, kids in the villages we serve will also take for granted the fact that clean, cool water flows from the pump in their village. They will be as oblivious as I was to the blessing of clean water.


That's my story. Knowing that I play a small part in this mission is a great motivation to get out of bed and start my day. Connecting people who are passionate about helping others with an organization that has helped over 1,500,000 people in Ghana and Tanzania, just might be the best job in the world.

Now, it's your chance to join the mission!

If you can afford to donate, make a donation today.

Donate a lot.

Donate a little.

Set up a monthly recurring donation that you won't even see coming out each month (It's like Disney+, but it provides clean water for communities in need and saves lives!).

If you can't afford to donate, you can still help. Share our social media and website content with your friends. Follow us, like our page, comment, retweet---do whatever it is you do on social media, and help get our organization and our mission out there! The more people we reach, the more people we can help.

Thanks for your support and let me know if there are any questions I can answer.

If your church, company or organization would like to have someone from our team come and speak to your group, let me know! I'm always up for traveling to see friends and to tell people about the awesome work that LWI is doing. Here's hoping that we reach the next 1,500,000 people in half the time it took to reach the first.

Mark

PS: Take a look at the full campaign page below and make sure to watch the video to get a fuller picture of the need in the communities of Northern Ghana.

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