I asked her if she wanted to stay in her village when she grew up. She said, “No! I want to go toLusaka and become a nurse!”
Clean water — something as basic as that — had given this child the chance to dream.
As I learned more about water and sanitation, I was floored by the extent to which it undergirds all these problems of extreme poverty. The fate of entire communities, economies, countries iscaught up in that glass of water, something the rest of us get to take for granted.
People at ONE told me that water is the least sexy aspect of the effort to fight extreme poverty. And water goes hand-in-hand with sanitation. If you think water isn’t sexy, you should try to getinto the shit business.
But I was already hooked. The enormity of it, and the complexity of the issue, had already hookedme. And getting out in the world and meeting people like this little girl is what put me on the pathto starting Water.org, with a brilliant civil engineer named Gary White.
For Gary and me both, seeing the world ... its problems, its possibilities ... heightened our disbeliefthat so many people, millions, in fact, can’t get a safe, clean drink of water or a safe, clean, privateplace to go to the bathroom. And it heightened our determination to do something about it.
You see some tough things out there. But you also see life- changing joy. And it all changes you.
There was a refugee crisis back in ’09 that I read about in an amazing article in the New York Times. People were streaming across the border of Zimbabwe to a little town in northern South Africa called Messina. I was working in South Africa, so I went up to Messina to see for myself what wasgoing on.
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