We’ll be running a short series of blog posts over the next 10 days, highlighting personal stories telling why we Walk4Water. WaterAfrica founder and President Bill Savage shared his story in a recent letter to the editor for the Lake Oswego Review:
My wife and I are walking because of Kyra.Kyra, our first grandchild, died just before she was born. I can’t describe the grief we felt…or the much deeper grief Kyra’s mother and father felt.
Her death and the grief it sparked motivated us to do all we can to keep other parents from feeling that grief and to enable other children to grow and flourish.
We focused on an area where there is a lot of childhood mortality and a lot of grief—rural Zambia. We found that providing safe water and sanitation cut childhood mortality in half. As a result, half as many parents grieve; twice as many children grow and flourish.
This picture inspires us on our “Kyra mission,” to help keep the baby alive and keep the mother from grieving.
We’re walking because of Kyra.
Why Do You Walk? We’d love to hear your stories. Please share them in the comments or email jsearls@waterafrica.org.
