As World Water Day approaches, a local woman is on a mission to bring clean water solutions to the 844 million people around the world currently lacking access.
When Carly Powne began mission work in Uganda in 2013 for two months, she saw the hardships many faced in their daily search for clean drinking water.
Caring for orphans of a civil war, Powne’s village well broke, giving her the responsibility of fetching dirty, often undrinkable water from the Nile River.
World Vision donors made this all possible in 2016.
Powne is proud of the results and would like for San Antonio to participate on her team on May 19 in World Vision’s Global 6K for Water to raise money for clean water across the world.
Six kilometers is the average distance that people in the developing world walk for water that is contaminated.
Participants can take that 6K away from people in need.
One also has the opportunity to donate money to provide one child with clean water for life.
“A lot of people believe you could only dig wells, and World Vision has gone beyond that,” continued Powne.
“World Vision has been working on research in impoverished areas to provide safe water, improved sanitation, and hygiene education so that illnesses decrease and health improves.” On World Water Day, Powne would like for San Antonians to reflect on helping others gain access of healthy drinking water imagining themselves only having access to River Walk.