Saturday, February 24, 2007

An Emergency in the Sahara...


I received an e-mail from Dr. Jeff Peterson of the ONE Campaign like most ONE members did. He was part of the medic group supporting the Running the Sahara expedition that started several weeks ago.

He recounted his story about being stopped during their travel so they could provide first aid to a one-year old baby whose leg was severely burned by boiling water. The child's parents were boiling it to make the water potable to drink but the child had accidentally turned it over onto himself. By the time Peterson and his team got there, the child's burns had gotten so bad because of the lack of clean water in the area.

Dr. Peterson wanted to emphasize and impart to many of us the great lack and need for water in these areas. That while many of us even have the luxury of buying bottled mineral water, people in these places don't even have adequate nor clean water to cleanse themselves with.

Many of us are far luckier than the people in Africa and many other depressed areas. After reading Peterson's e-mail, I can only be thankful again for all the blessings that have come my way.

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