Water Is Filling Their Stomachs With Food
Hunger continues to rise in Burkina Faso. The causes are complex and vary from community to community. Factors such as rising prices, extreme weather and conflict all play a role.
But for Fabrice, all his hunger came back to one thing: water scarcity.
There was only one water pump for every man, woman, child and animal in his whole village. Without water, crops didn’t grow during the long dry season. And in a community where 90.4% of the population endures poverty, soaring food prices took buying food off the table.
But givers like you have equipped churches to meet these urgent needs.
For Fabrice, that meant his local Compassion center provided a solar-powered borehole.
It draws clean water deep from the earth. To alleviate the community’s food crisis, the Compassion center uses it to run a garden. Locals are learning how to grow food to feed their families. They have a food source that’s in their control, safe from inflation, drought and even instability.
Because of supporters like you, what once was parched ground is now green and life-giving to a whole community.