Pakistan Relief Blog 3: “LifeSaving” water arrives to relief camps
by Kumar Periasamy
SUKKUR, Pakistan—This morning as I was leaving the camp the leader said, “These are our children, and they will be ours, thank you for helping them.” I asked myself, “Why did he say that?”
There could be couple reasons; maybe because we are Christians helping their Muslim children, or maybe because he wanted to make sure that we kept a distance, just do the project and leave. I told the couple of volunteers who were with me, “Well, I hope through what we will be doing for these kids, he will change his statement.”
As promised, I returned that evening to the camp with the LifeSaver jerrycan. The leader had all the kids assembled and I had him bring a bucket of drinking water from the river. Many men and kids were all around us curious to see what was taking place. I had the leader fill the jerrycan, then I pumped it and served him the first glass of water.
He drank and drank, looked at me with a big smile and said, “It is sweet.” He compared the water they had been drinking and he just shook his head. He told the kids to line up and enjoy the clean drinking water.
After all the kids had a glass of water and we were about to leave, the leader came to me and said, “These are your children, please help them, and help us to help them too.” Those words touched my heart. Once again Operation Blessing and LifeSaver made an impact in this village.
Tomorrow morning a team of doctors will be seeing to the medical needs of the children. We have also purchased towels, soap and shampoo for the kids to have a bath. Thank you for your continued support!
Tags: clean water, Disaster Relief, Flood Relief, Kumar Periasamy, Lifesaver Jerrycans, Lifesaver Relief, Middle East, OBI, Operation Blessing, Pakistan, Pakistan Flood, Sukkur, Water Filtration
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September 3rd, 2010 at 12:34 pm
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