Perhaps you remember a short video we showed at the 2010 WaterAfrica Film Festival called Walking in Sabina’s Shoes. In the film Kari Costanza, World Vision Journalist/Reporter, walks alongside a Kenyan lady named Sabina as she makes her daily trek to water. With her hands deep in the mud, Kari joins Sabina to shape a hole where water collects so they can scoop it to fill their buckets. As Kari works she thinks outloud and we hear her powerful reflections. Kari tells us that Sabina has dreams for her children, and she wishes to just take a bath at her own house. But Kari also describes Sabina’s reality: If you don’t have water it robs you of time. It robs you of education. You don’t have time to spend with family and do the things you want to do like plant a kitchen garden.
We hear Kari’s determined self-talk as she struggles to carry 70 pounds of water 2 miles back to Sabina’s home. And she wraps up her Walk for Water with words of urgent compassion: “My wish for Sabina today is that water will come close to her so she won’t be chained to that river anymore so she’ll get back the time she deserves and needs to have a full life.”
Kari Costanza is speaking at H2O: Hope2Opportunity at Lake Grove Presbyterian Church on Saturday, February 23, 9-11am. This free event is presented by the Columbia-Willamette Chapter Women of Vision and is open to men and women.
Just as WaterAfrica supports World Vision’s WASH work in Zambia, the Columbia-Willamette Chapter Women of Vision supports World Vision’s WASH work in Mozambique. Kari’s stories will speak to unique WASH challenges specific to geography and culture, but her stories will also illuminate general WASH problems and the methods World Vision employs in response.
This is an excellent opportunity for you to hear stories from the field and to better understand how World Vision’s Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) program comes alongside villagers to create hope and opportunity.
This is an excellent opportunity for you to hear stories from the field and to better understand how World Vision’s Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) program comes alongside villagers to create hope and opportunity.
For more information see the H2O: Hope2Opportunity event page where you can RSVP to attend.
