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A refugee woman returns with empty bottles after discovering the wells are dry.
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A small school in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley has provided Bedouin children
with a Christian education since the early 1960s. It sits near the
Syrian border, a border that thousands of Syrian refugees crossed when
war broke out three years ago. Many of these refugees pitched their
tents around the Bedouin school.
The 120 Bedouin children who attended the school were soon joined by
300 Syrian refugees, children whom the 14 teachers simply could not turn
away. The school was already filled to capacity, so they began a new
schedule, educating the Bedouin children in the morning and the Syrian
children in the afternoons. The six classrooms became dormitories at
night.
School is about to start up again, but this year, there is no water.
Poor rainfall in Lebanon, the worst in the past 60 years, has created a
drought. Used by thousands of refugees, the two wells outside the school
are dry.
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Severe drought in Lebanon has depleted water supplies.
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Dirty
puddles from dried creek beds serve as drinking water for the refugees.
“No wonder the children are all sick,” reports a ministry leader
assisted by Christian Aid Mission. “We have the manpower to drill a new
well, but we need to rent the equipment to dig down 100 yards.”
The total cost for a new well, including materials and equipment rental, is $14,000.
Your gift toward the cost of this well will enable gospel workers and
teachers at the Christian school to provide tangible evidence of God’s
love to refugees who have lost everything. Please help us supply them
with clean, fresh water.
“And
if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones
who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not
lose their reward.” (Matthew 10:42 NIV)
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