Friday, December 24, 2010
imagine
Imagine not having clean water to drink, now imagine that is all you have to keep you hydrated and but its making you sick.
Water and Health
At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.
Nearly 90 percent of all diseases in the world are caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene. Every year, there are 4 billion cases of diarrhea as a direct result of drinking contaminated water; this results in more than 2.2
million deaths each year—the equivalent of 20 jumbo jets crashing every day.
The weakest members of communities are the most vulnerable; every day water-related diseases claim the lives of 5000 children under the age of five. That’s roughly one every 15 seconds.
“Clean water and sanitation are among the most powerful preventative medicines for reducing child mortality. They are to diarrhea what immunization is to killer diseases such as measles or polio: a mechanism for reducing risk and averting death.”
- United Nations Development Program, 2006
(Water. It is at the heart of a daily crisis faced by a billion of the world’s most vulnerable people—a crisis that threatens life and destroys livelihoods on a devastating scale.
Unlike war and terrorism, the global water crisis does not make media headlines, despite the fact that it claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. Unlike natural disasters, it does not rally concerted international action, despite the fact that more people die each year from drinking dirty water than from the world’s hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes combined.
This is a silent crisis experienced by the poor, and tolerated by those with the resources, technology, and the political power to end it. Yet this is a crisis that is holding back human progress, consigning large segments of humanity to lives of poverty, vulnerability, and insecurity.)
At Living Water International, we are addressing this most basic of needs by helping deprived communities acquire safe, clean water. Our goal is to substantially ease the global water crisis while addressing root causes such as injustice, oppression, and abject poverty. As this happens, communities and worldviews are transformed—both among those in desperate physical need, and among those who have been blessed with much.
What Would It Take
How much money would solve the world water crisis?
Most people are taking a serious look at the numbers within the context of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to “reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015.” So most of the best numbers only address half the need, but include providing adequate sanitation for the world’s 2.5 billion who are lacking it, and we are left to wonder what the cost would be for providing only water to those 884 million lacking The question itself is not entirely clear either. When is the “world water crisis” no longer a crisis? When we’ve met the UN’s MDG? When everybody has access to clean water? When people have clean water? Or “improved” water, which may only be a covered shallow hand-dug well? Could some non-profit sectors provide sustainable water more efficiently than the mostly governmental agencies whose data is being extrapolated to arrive at our figures? Is the number even relevant if sufficient reliable implementing agencies do not currently exist?
The World Bank offers a range of cost estimates to reach MDG goals. They estimate the cost of reaching “basic levels of coverage…in water and sanitation” to be $9 billion at the low end, and $30 billion a year for “achieving universal coverage” for water and sanitation. The same report acknowledges that the “institutional arrangements” do not exist to reach the goal in any case, and concludes that, “taking these estimates and their caveats together, we estimate that the cost… is between $5 and $21 billion.”
Water and Health
At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.
Nearly 90 percent of all diseases in the world are caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene. Every year, there are 4 billion cases of diarrhea as a direct result of drinking contaminated water; this results in more than 2.2
million deaths each year—the equivalent of 20 jumbo jets crashing every day.
The weakest members of communities are the most vulnerable; every day water-related diseases claim the lives of 5000 children under the age of five. That’s roughly one every 15 seconds.
“Clean water and sanitation are among the most powerful preventative medicines for reducing child mortality. They are to diarrhea what immunization is to killer diseases such as measles or polio: a mechanism for reducing risk and averting death.”
- United Nations Development Program, 2006
(Water. It is at the heart of a daily crisis faced by a billion of the world’s most vulnerable people—a crisis that threatens life and destroys livelihoods on a devastating scale.
Unlike war and terrorism, the global water crisis does not make media headlines, despite the fact that it claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. Unlike natural disasters, it does not rally concerted international action, despite the fact that more people die each year from drinking dirty water than from the world’s hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes combined.
This is a silent crisis experienced by the poor, and tolerated by those with the resources, technology, and the political power to end it. Yet this is a crisis that is holding back human progress, consigning large segments of humanity to lives of poverty, vulnerability, and insecurity.)
At Living Water International, we are addressing this most basic of needs by helping deprived communities acquire safe, clean water. Our goal is to substantially ease the global water crisis while addressing root causes such as injustice, oppression, and abject poverty. As this happens, communities and worldviews are transformed—both among those in desperate physical need, and among those who have been blessed with much.
What Would It Take
How much money would solve the world water crisis?
Most people are taking a serious look at the numbers within the context of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to “reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015.” So most of the best numbers only address half the need, but include providing adequate sanitation for the world’s 2.5 billion who are lacking it, and we are left to wonder what the cost would be for providing only water to those 884 million lacking The question itself is not entirely clear either. When is the “world water crisis” no longer a crisis? When we’ve met the UN’s MDG? When everybody has access to clean water? When people have clean water? Or “improved” water, which may only be a covered shallow hand-dug well? Could some non-profit sectors provide sustainable water more efficiently than the mostly governmental agencies whose data is being extrapolated to arrive at our figures? Is the number even relevant if sufficient reliable implementing agencies do not currently exist?
The World Bank offers a range of cost estimates to reach MDG goals. They estimate the cost of reaching “basic levels of coverage…in water and sanitation” to be $9 billion at the low end, and $30 billion a year for “achieving universal coverage” for water and sanitation. The same report acknowledges that the “institutional arrangements” do not exist to reach the goal in any case, and concludes that, “taking these estimates and their caveats together, we estimate that the cost… is between $5 and $21 billion.”
Friday, December 03, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Post number two
This is kind of a continue of the story at the end of the last post.
I just ask everyone that views this blog to constantly be in prayer for me and here is how you can be in prayer for me....
1. pray that when there is discontentment that I would seek the lord and find contentment in where he has me.
2. pray for me that my focus would be on the lord and the enemy would not distract me , and that the stuff in this world and on tv would not distract me that the weapons on the enemy would not harm me and cause me to loose focus.
3. and as person of their late 20s that still deals with the dating would that that also would not cause me to loose focus.
4. pray for me in the area of holding my tongue, and pray that the words spoken out of my mouth would not be words that would destroy but that my words would be words that would help build up .
I just ask everyone that views this blog to constantly be in prayer for me and here is how you can be in prayer for me....
1. pray that when there is discontentment that I would seek the lord and find contentment in where he has me.
2. pray for me that my focus would be on the lord and the enemy would not distract me , and that the stuff in this world and on tv would not distract me that the weapons on the enemy would not harm me and cause me to loose focus.
3. and as person of their late 20s that still deals with the dating would that that also would not cause me to loose focus.
4. pray for me in the area of holding my tongue, and pray that the words spoken out of my mouth would not be words that would destroy but that my words would be words that would help build up .
His Voice
God has continued to introduce me to some very cool people over the summer I got to
meet a really cool family the Amber, Vernon,Justice, and Titus Burger!!! This Family has such a heart missions and social justice its truly incredible ,the work that is happen in Sudan that Vernon and the organization he started his Voice for Sudan, and now we @ the Ring Community church get to be a part of what Vernon and his family and gonna be doing in India help with this Pastor and his wife that are helping rescue young boys are being sold for money and sex trafficking , I know one role as a member of the Ring community church that i am called to is to be in prayer for ,one for safety of who god sends to India to help with this boys home and helping them rescue these young boys from these gangs that are selling them ,my role is prayer I know that this one of the few places i cannot go one because of the disease and and the shot that you have to get to go over there ,God has reminded me before when my friend Amy Imel went to Africa to help with Village schools international, i wanted so bad to be able to go and help god spoke to me and said would you wanna go and do this one mission trip and be sick for the rest of your life, or would you rather go reach multitude of people , God was trying to remind me about when the ring goes to Mexico . Mexico and the people there i have such a passion for , I love going down there and I just love working along side the people at the church in Monclova Mexico , I love the kids in Mexico!!!
Tail gating with the Ring
Chrystal is one help Josh with the chilly and I have e to say that was some pretty darn good chilly
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Breaking the habit
I know this title of this blog post is also a title to a song but, this has nothing to do with that song, even thought i am a fan of Linkin park.I am working very hard to break old habits though it is not easy and ,I can not do them on my own ,I have to remember to rely on the Lord , and i will add one one habit just from this blog post is relying on spell check rather than correcting my spelling and other stuff within my sentences , but hear is a few habits that slowly are being broken...
1. letting what other say dictate how I think about my self
2. over communicating, but i have to learn to balance how much something gets communicated because if it is something that a big need or something , i have to learn how much communication to put out ( know is half the battle)
3. being a people pleaser
1. letting what other say dictate how I think about my self
2. over communicating, but i have to learn to balance how much something gets communicated because if it is something that a big need or something , i have to learn how much communication to put out ( know is half the battle)
3. being a people pleaser
Monday, November 15, 2010
Advent conspiracy
That time of year is around the corner , when malls start getting jam packed and Uncle Sam is never on the nice list, but he always get a gift it just comes a little late!!!
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I love that the Ring Community Church is involved with Advent conspiracy, I love what Advent conspiracy is about...
1. spend less
2. give more
3. worship fully
4. love all
I just get super pumped , and i love going to hang out with the kids at the shelter and helping them make crafts to give to their mom's for Christmas , and I love spending this time with friends and just hanging out !!!
another thing cool that about this time of year is the endless Christmas animated movies, who doesn't like, ( The Grinch that stole Christmas),and there other cool movies out there but the Grinch is my favorite!!!!
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I love that the Ring Community Church is involved with Advent conspiracy, I love what Advent conspiracy is about...
1. spend less
2. give more
3. worship fully
4. love all
I just get super pumped , and i love going to hang out with the kids at the shelter and helping them make crafts to give to their mom's for Christmas , and I love spending this time with friends and just hanging out !!!
another thing cool that about this time of year is the endless Christmas animated movies, who doesn't like, ( The Grinch that stole Christmas),and there other cool movies out there but the Grinch is my favorite!!!!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
buy one give one
If ya do not have shoes you can not go to school weither a kid lives in a third world country or right here in in America, so November 5 2010 which is a Friday , shoe up to work or school you local libray, coffee shop and go barefoot and if someone ask you weres your shoes tell them the reason behind why your going barefoot.Local stores Seven Elevan and Cheveron have signs no shoes no service what if you where a child going to get a loaf of bread and , your family can not afford shoes but your family is hungery and yall have saved all week to have sandwhiches , so tell the Clerck at the gas station or where ever ya go the reason behind why your going barefoot
Monday, September 27, 2010
wishes and wants and more....
( this is gonna be a big post)
I went to a screen showing for an organization my dear sweet friend Angel Cutno is a part of LiNK ,( liberty in North Korea ) , I love my sweet friend Angel and and a large group of us @ the Ring have such a huge heart for missions!!!!
here is one of my wishes
1. to go back to computer school, not to get some big corporate job, but one of my passions is to just help people with their computer problems, either if its when I am in the coffee shop volunteering at a computer club , or where ever I am, yes I have a desire to teach but not to be one that grades but to educate people on safe computing and help them to learn to be able to fix virus problems.
one of my wants
I want people to know that they are loved and how much Christ loves them, this can all go as a wish ,because I wish that everyone felt loved and excepted.
I wish one that i had a free hugs shirt because I would wear it often and I love to give hugs , and again I want people to feel loved .
I wish that I could go and help get freedom for the North Korans ,but I will do whatever I can do here at home to help recruit nomads and other chapters,because I know my limits medically.
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I went to a screen showing for an organization my dear sweet friend Angel Cutno is a part of LiNK ,( liberty in North Korea ) , I love my sweet friend Angel and and a large group of us @ the Ring have such a huge heart for missions!!!!
here is one of my wishes
1. to go back to computer school, not to get some big corporate job, but one of my passions is to just help people with their computer problems, either if its when I am in the coffee shop volunteering at a computer club , or where ever I am, yes I have a desire to teach but not to be one that grades but to educate people on safe computing and help them to learn to be able to fix virus problems.
one of my wants
I want people to know that they are loved and how much Christ loves them, this can all go as a wish ,because I wish that everyone felt loved and excepted.
I wish one that i had a free hugs shirt because I would wear it often and I love to give hugs , and again I want people to feel loved .
I wish that I could go and help get freedom for the North Korans ,but I will do whatever I can do here at home to help recruit nomads and other chapters,because I know my limits medically.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
my wishes and wants
I am gonna start with the wants.
(((Wants)))
1.I want to know how to play the guitar.
2. I want to be do more about poverty in the world
3. I want to snow board again one day.
4. I want to drive again one day.
((( Wishes ))))
1. I wish I had the a healthy enough immune system to go down and learn to dig water wells for people that do not have clean water for drinking
2. I wish that go and live and work in an orphanage with kids in mexico
3. I wish i could go see the kids at the Children's inn @ NIH ,i miss them
(((Wants)))
1.I want to know how to play the guitar.
2. I want to be do more about poverty in the world
3. I want to snow board again one day.
4. I want to drive again one day.
((( Wishes ))))
1. I wish I had the a healthy enough immune system to go down and learn to dig water wells for people that do not have clean water for drinking
2. I wish that go and live and work in an orphanage with kids in mexico
3. I wish i could go see the kids at the Children's inn @ NIH ,i miss them
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
things i am so thankful for
I am so thankful that the Lord has adopted as his child, I am so honored to be a child of God.
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.John 1:12 (NIV)
I am so thankful for the heart the Lord has given me ,He has given me a heart for the Homeless,the broken ,and for his people in Mexico.but my mission field goes way beyond that it goes to helping people in my community any way I can!!
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.John 1:12 (NIV)
I am so thankful for the heart the Lord has given me ,He has given me a heart for the Homeless,the broken ,and for his people in Mexico.but my mission field goes way beyond that it goes to helping people in my community any way I can!!
Saturday, August 28, 2010
unorganized
I am normally some what of a organized person if if come to my electronics and how I pack them in my back pack , and i used to pretty good at keeping organized when it comes to a journal , or I used to .I am a fan of keeping a journal but , lately i have not felt like keeping a journal because I keep one book that is a journal for notes from sermons and I have one for journaling my thoughts and i try to have a little note pad for writing down numbers or writing something quick that I have to remember, but everything has been sort of stressful these last few months that everything in my brain has been jumbled around,so I am if anyone who follows my blog or gets the emails when I update has any suggestion or wants to help me get organized I welcome the help.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
wishes
Wishes:
1. I wish I walking on the beach and picking up sea shells with out the interference of a TV , or anything else, all would have with me is my back pack with my bible and a water bottle
2. that I my heart would stop breaking
3.that there was peace on earth
4.I wish that I was in Monclova Mexico working at Casa Hogar ,I love working with kids
5. I wish that I did not get anxiety
6. I wish that the recorder in my head that get started up that i have to drown constantly would stay drowned
1. I wish I walking on the beach and picking up sea shells with out the interference of a TV , or anything else, all would have with me is my back pack with my bible and a water bottle
2. that I my heart would stop breaking
3.that there was peace on earth
4.I wish that I was in Monclova Mexico working at Casa Hogar ,I love working with kids
5. I wish that I did not get anxiety
6. I wish that the recorder in my head that get started up that i have to drown constantly would stay drowned
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
joys in times of hardship and suffering
Two character in the bible I love are Job and Paul ,Job never cursed God not one time, Job had everything taken away from him , and what did he do he fell down and worshiped the Lord,Paul was put in prison for preaching the gospel and he found joy in his suffer for the cause of Christ. I wish that every time i went through something that I found joy in it, but sometime i don't because sometimes my heart just breaks. Now god has given me some amazing gifts gauchers disease, glacoma, and I had back surgery when i was 11 because one i do not have a spleen the gauchers diease enlarged my spleen and I had to have it removed and the gauchers went to my bones. Now i have been on enzime replacement since 1992 and i am healthy my bones are healthy. another part of the gift is when i go to get my infusions seeing other grab on to hope and faith of Jesus Christ, i have seen young children go through far more than i do and have such joy on there faces, and I see adults go through stuff far more than i can amagine and still have a joy , a joy to be alive. I love it that I wake up every day and through the power of Christ i kick gaucher, and glaucoma's rear end, but but what breaks my heart is the emotional scars in my life for me that is a million time harder to fight that anything fisical, and it starts to hurt my heart fisicaly as well.But i know Christ is there every step of the way , he says in psalms 23 that enven though we go through the valley of shadow and death fear no evil for he is with us his rod and his staff comfort us.
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
tip of the day
How to clean a laptop
Power down the laptop computer. Close the LCD display lid and turn the computer over. Hold down the battery release button and pull the battery out of the laptop.
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Flip the laptop computer back to its original position and open the LCD display lid. Pour a small amount of LCD cleaning solution onto the soft cloth. Wring the cloth out so that its damp but there is no excess liquid dripping off.
3.
Start at the top of the LCD screen and gently wipe in a downward motion. Repeat as many times as necessary to clean off fingerprints or other smudges from the LCD screen.
4.
Locate the strip of plastic in between the LCD screen and the keyboard that usually contains the power button and caps lock light indicator. Slide a thin object such as the edge of a flat head screwdriver underneath the seam of the plastic strip. Pop the plastic piece upward and remove it from the laptop.
5.
Remove the two screws at the top of the keyboard that hold it in place. Lift the keyboard up slightly until the motherboard comes into view. Unplug the cable running from the keyboard to the motherboard port.
6.
Lift the keyboard off of the laptop. Spray out the underside of the keyboard and the inside of the laptop with a bottle of canned air to remove any debris such as hair or dust particles.
7.
Use a cotton swab to wipe off any excess dirt that has built up in the processor fan or on any of the other hardware components inside the laptop. Connect the keyboard's cable back into the motherboard port and then reattach the keyboard.
8.
Pop the bezel back onto the laptop and then place the battery back into the port on the bottom of the computer.
Laptop Cleaning Tips and Warnings:
1.
If there is spilled liquid or other debris inside the keyboard keys you can also use cotton swabs to clean them out.
2.
Create your own LCD screen cleaning solution if you don't want to buy a pre-made solution. Combine one part isopropyl alcohol and one part distilled water to make the solution. Do not use regular tap water.
3.
If you don't have a soft cotton cloth, consider using an old t-shirt instead.
4.
Some laptop models have screws on the bottom of the laptop that need to be removed before you can pull off the keyboard. Check the manual that came with your laptop if you are having trouble removing the keyboard.
Power down the laptop computer. Close the LCD display lid and turn the computer over. Hold down the battery release button and pull the battery out of the laptop.
#
Flip the laptop computer back to its original position and open the LCD display lid. Pour a small amount of LCD cleaning solution onto the soft cloth. Wring the cloth out so that its damp but there is no excess liquid dripping off.
3.
Start at the top of the LCD screen and gently wipe in a downward motion. Repeat as many times as necessary to clean off fingerprints or other smudges from the LCD screen.
4.
Locate the strip of plastic in between the LCD screen and the keyboard that usually contains the power button and caps lock light indicator. Slide a thin object such as the edge of a flat head screwdriver underneath the seam of the plastic strip. Pop the plastic piece upward and remove it from the laptop.
5.
Remove the two screws at the top of the keyboard that hold it in place. Lift the keyboard up slightly until the motherboard comes into view. Unplug the cable running from the keyboard to the motherboard port.
6.
Lift the keyboard off of the laptop. Spray out the underside of the keyboard and the inside of the laptop with a bottle of canned air to remove any debris such as hair or dust particles.
7.
Use a cotton swab to wipe off any excess dirt that has built up in the processor fan or on any of the other hardware components inside the laptop. Connect the keyboard's cable back into the motherboard port and then reattach the keyboard.
8.
Pop the bezel back onto the laptop and then place the battery back into the port on the bottom of the computer.
Laptop Cleaning Tips and Warnings:
1.
If there is spilled liquid or other debris inside the keyboard keys you can also use cotton swabs to clean them out.
2.
Create your own LCD screen cleaning solution if you don't want to buy a pre-made solution. Combine one part isopropyl alcohol and one part distilled water to make the solution. Do not use regular tap water.
3.
If you don't have a soft cotton cloth, consider using an old t-shirt instead.
4.
Some laptop models have screws on the bottom of the laptop that need to be removed before you can pull off the keyboard. Check the manual that came with your laptop if you are having trouble removing the keyboard.
Monday, August 02, 2010
today good and kinda an eye opener
Today started off to be my usual Monday which i love so much I get to spend some good time with Josh and Meg, but God added some more alone time with him and his word, and some more time with my favorite aunt in the world Megan Kelly . but, God really started setting this up last night from Jakes sermon to just about 3 and half hour ago , and i am in Taylor Vernon's class and the topic is on fear and Anxiety and I am in the right class at the right time!!!The sermon last night came from Matthew 18:1-4 when the disciples asking Jesus who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven , and the disciples I guess worry basically trying to get Jesus to say who his favorite was and so on, but Jesus to me kinda throws them a curve ball when used this child as an example not just telling them a story but try to get them to open their eyes to you must have child like faith, children look to their parents for their needs such as clothing and food and it much more than that but their emotional support. But in this class tonight on fear an Anxiety I listed my fears.
Sunday, August 01, 2010
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