Celebrating 1,000 when ONE matters

We do like big numbers. I have not heard anyone describe the trek to the summit of Kilimanjaro as a 3.8-mile climb. Climbers like to say that they traveled 19,340 ft. What is fascinating to me is that even though the most common ways to describe issues of poverty is to use obtuse language and disconnected big numbers, if we think back to the reasons we began to care about the effects of poverty, it would, in most cases, start with a single story. The reasons we were compelled to write a letter to our senator, or sign a petition, or make a financial sacrifice was because of a single story. At some point in the conversation the numbers fell to the periphery and left standing a human face, or a family story that brought weight and meaning to what was once just information.

And so it is with great hesitation that I write this post. Because what I am hoping to celebrate without being contradictory is the completion of Blood:Water Mission's goal to help bring clean water to 1,000 communities in Africa by way of a campaign called, "The 1000 Wells Project." How could our widest eyes grasp a view vast enough to hold 1,000 communities?...

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