Giving Back Magazine December 2018 | Page 56

Change 10 YEARS of CHANGING LIVES!! The “Give Clean Water Way” W hat if you could change the world? It sounds like a lofty goal... out of reach, too big, too overwhelming. But what if you COULD change the world?? Imagine your day without access to safe drinking water. How would you prepare your morning cup of coffee? How would you brush your teeth? How would you cope with your children being ill simply because of the water? Imagine a home, a community, or an entire country, where safe drinking water was unavailable; where children and adults contract typhoid, cholera and other waterborne diseases because of a lack of safe water to drink. In the United States, we take for granted the ability to turn on our water faucet and have safe, bacteria- free water at our finger tips. We forget that many developing countries, even those that we often vacation to, do not have the means or the infrastructure to provide families with safe water to drink. The lack of clean water is 56 GBSAN.COM | DECEMBER 2018 Founder Darrel Larson with children in Fiji