“Water is a rare commodity,” says a Barnabas Aid project partner in Manipur, north-eastern India.
You might be shocked to read that. And you should be.
Water is the most basic of basic necessities – and yet many of the impoverished believers in Manipur have no safe and reliable water source.
Christian villagers in north-eastern India often rely on harvesting rainwater, which may not be safe to drink
In two Christian villages, people must regularly resort to harvesting rainwater, with no guarantees that the water they collect is safe or sanitary.
Another option is to purchase drinking water – but even this expensive solution may often fail owing to the political unrest, instability and violence that plague Manipur.
In recent years, many believers have been killed or assaulted, numerous Christian communities targeted, many church buildings destroyed.
“Their struggle to have sufficient supply of water keeps them vulnerable,” says another Barnabas Aid contact from Manipur.
“Poverty and neglect by authorities are startling.”
Can you provide our brothers and sisters with a cleaner, safer source of drinking water?
The two villages do not even have any political representation. There is nobody to help them.
Yet they are not forgotten by our Lord – and they are not forgotten by you, their brothers and sisters in Christ.
Barnabas Aid is partnering with churches in Manipur to drill two new boreholes, providing a safe and reliable source of drinking water for each village.
We need your help to make this a reality.
Please give as you feel led towards the cost of this project. Please also pray for its success, and for the needs of our Christian family in Manipur.
How you can pray
Lord God and Heavenly Father, we pray for the Christian villagers in Manipur who are suffering because of a lack of clean water. Please provide for their needs, bring them safe and reliable sources of water, and protect them from harm. You are the living water, Lord, as Your Word says in John 4:14: “But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.” Please bring both physical and spiritual refreshment to their lives. May Your love and provision shine brightly in their lives, to the praise of Your glorious Name. In Jesus’ Name we pray, Amen.
How you can give
£27 One hundred gifts of £27 ($32; €29) could cover the cost of drilling a 250-foot borehole in one of these villages
£135 Twenty gifts of £135 ($163; €149) could cover the cost of drilling the borehole in one of the villages
£2,707 A single donation of £2,707 ($3,248; €2,978) could fund the entire borehole drilling project in one of the villages
