Highlands Ranch, CO: Miss Di Rito’s 7th grade ‘Connections Class’ at Ranch View Middle School had the idea to put together a charitable fundraiser called, “Wagons for Water.” There original plan was to raise money to build wagons and ship them over to Africa. Once they saw the price tag for shipping, we were able to connect them with “Acirfa,” a ministry established to help deal with the unique transportation and delivery challenges in Africa.

Their gift of $1100 is being used to bring bikes and carts to the first CoL community in Mozambique. From there we hope to grow additional vocational training opportunities and economic development initiatives for each CoL community that include a viable delivery and distribution infrastructure for water, cylinders and batteries.

It was encouraging to see the lights go on in these young peoples eyes as they realized that their fundraiser was going to make it possible for a handful of people on the other side of the world to get a job and provide for their families. Their efforts were literally making a life or death difference for people they will never meet. That sounds like faith being born out of love to me.