To Mozambique With Love
What’s hard to believe is that there are more than 1 billion people living without clean water.
In Mozambique, only 29% of the population has access to clean drinking water. In this beautiful country of more than 22 million people, roughly 14 million go without clean water every day. The infant mortality rate for Mozambican newborns is greater than 10%.
Babies + disease infested water + diarrhea + dehydration = death before they blow out candle number five.
The numbers make sense in light of the fact that the leading causes of death are all related to water born diseases: Bacterial and Protozoan Diarrhea, Hepatitis A, Typhoid Fever and Schistosomiasis.
But who cares about numbers. Numbers rarely change peoples minds, push their imaginations to new depths, catalyze habitual change or motivate the affluent to give to the poor. Stories do. Action does. We can casually dismiss the numbers and let the digits roll off our backs, but if we choose to ignore the stories of the diseased and dying, the orphans and the widows, then their blood, so to say, is on our hands. Dirty water is killing thousands of people every day. Lack of access to clean water is destroying villages, tearing families apart and ravaging lives one drink, one bath, one swim at a time.
I’m going to Mozambique in January of next year with an amazing team of people not to bring back more numbers and facts but to bring back stories and images of those held captive by their water.
It’s sure to be quite the journey.
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We need as many people as possible pitching in for the problems in Africa. Awesome, brotha.
Can’t wait to see what inspires you once we get there! Thanks for this!
Really amazing article. Thanks Parke. You’re truly blessed and incredibly talented.
Have an amazing trip to Mozambique! Looking forward to photos and reflections from your time there.
Thanks everyone. This trip, and the art show we’re presenting upon return, is really starting to take shape. Thank you for your support and prayers! They are truly appreciated.
Parke,you are truly a gifted man. I am so excited to be on board with this tremendous need for clean water in Africa. I will be on that same trip next year dedicating the “well” that Jon and I are rasing money now to drill next year. Peace my friend!
His path is clear and Undeniable for the Passions that are within you hold the knowledge that leads to his design.
God has blessed all of you with the passion to help others have clean water Bless you all on your trip, My heart will be with your all as well as my prayers.