I'm convicted.
Whenever we're inconvenient, we complain. Because we're so used to having everything at a push of a button, at a single beckon of voice, at a stone throw distance, that we sometimes forget how fortunate we are to already have what we need albeit NOT to our convenience.
Water is Life is a project that aims to bring the most basic of basic needs and we're referring to the extent of survival of human lives, which is water. It isn't about the next badge I'm gonna drive, the next address I'm gonna move into, the next label I'm gonna wear to the next cosmopolitan event I'm attending. It's simply put, WATER. Clean safe water.
The current situation is alarming and critical when we look at the numbers. The crisis includes inadequate access to safe drinking water for about 884 million people and an even alarming inadequate access to water for sanitation and waste disposal for 2.5 billion people.
Water is Life aims to bring clean water to those in need, both short and long term, saving lives and transforming communities by providing life-giving clean water solutions and WASH programs to schools and villages in developing countries through innovative sustainable water solutions in partnership, to scale their impact globally.
The Good Samaritan Shop wants to help. The main reason for these inadequate access simply stems from one word - POVERTY. From here, we will donate $100 to sponsor 10 filtration Straws that would provide 10 children immediate access to safe drinking water. So I hear you say, 10? We donated, bought and sold so many items and we're only providing 10 children with 10 straws?
Then let me share a very heartwarming story with you which I've unabashedly picked up from WiL's founder, Ken Surritte's story.
This is the story of the little boy that was on the beach after a storm. There were thousands of starfish washed up on the beach. The little boy started picking starfish up one by one and throwing them back into the water. An old man watching this just shook his head thinking, "One little boy and so many starfish, he could never help them all." So the old man went down to the boy and told him, "Don't you know you will never make a difference? There are too many starfish washed up on the beach." The little boy looked at the old man and then reached down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the water and said, "It made a difference to that one."
If we had known the face of every child of that ten, would it still be just ten?
If you'd been supporting The Good Samaritan Shop, then thank you and I hope it brightened your day to see your dollar (or donated item) in action. And if you're a passer-by and would like to make a direct contribution to Water is Life, just click on this link.
Watch the story here (credit to DDB New York):
Whenever we're inconvenient, we complain. Because we're so used to having everything at a push of a button, at a single beckon of voice, at a stone throw distance, that we sometimes forget how fortunate we are to already have what we need albeit NOT to our convenience.
Water is Life is a project that aims to bring the most basic of basic needs and we're referring to the extent of survival of human lives, which is water. It isn't about the next badge I'm gonna drive, the next address I'm gonna move into, the next label I'm gonna wear to the next cosmopolitan event I'm attending. It's simply put, WATER. Clean safe water.
The current situation is alarming and critical when we look at the numbers. The crisis includes inadequate access to safe drinking water for about 884 million people and an even alarming inadequate access to water for sanitation and waste disposal for 2.5 billion people.
Water is Life aims to bring clean water to those in need, both short and long term, saving lives and transforming communities by providing life-giving clean water solutions and WASH programs to schools and villages in developing countries through innovative sustainable water solutions in partnership, to scale their impact globally.
The Good Samaritan Shop wants to help. The main reason for these inadequate access simply stems from one word - POVERTY. From here, we will donate $100 to sponsor 10 filtration Straws that would provide 10 children immediate access to safe drinking water. So I hear you say, 10? We donated, bought and sold so many items and we're only providing 10 children with 10 straws?
Then let me share a very heartwarming story with you which I've unabashedly picked up from WiL's founder, Ken Surritte's story.
This is the story of the little boy that was on the beach after a storm. There were thousands of starfish washed up on the beach. The little boy started picking starfish up one by one and throwing them back into the water. An old man watching this just shook his head thinking, "One little boy and so many starfish, he could never help them all." So the old man went down to the boy and told him, "Don't you know you will never make a difference? There are too many starfish washed up on the beach." The little boy looked at the old man and then reached down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the water and said, "It made a difference to that one."
If we had known the face of every child of that ten, would it still be just ten?
If you'd been supporting The Good Samaritan Shop, then thank you and I hope it brightened your day to see your dollar (or donated item) in action. And if you're a passer-by and would like to make a direct contribution to Water is Life, just click on this link.
Watch the story here (credit to DDB New York):
Proof of donation $100 = RM316.94
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