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Water Resources
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 The
new ELCA WORLD HUNGER:
LIFE-GIVING WATER
bulletin highlights programs that provide safe water
systems to communities and families around the
world.Read about
the primary school of Phuc Thuan in Vietnam and a
new clean-water system that has improved the health
of children there. Learn how a gift from the
ELCA World Hunger Appeal helped build an irrigation
system for an entire farming community in the
mountains of Peru. Find out what your gifts
made possible in the Central African Republic where
waterborne diseases run rampant.
This bulletin features the Amos 5:24 verse: "Let
justice roll down like waters...".
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Use this handy one-page,
reproducible sheet in adult forums, temple talks, or
cut and paste text straight into your bulletin to
help educate others about the need for clean water.
This provides a nice supplement to the new "ELCA
World Hunger: Life-Giving Water" bulletin. [More
facts about hunger]
Water facts sheet
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Read
this file from the ELCA's Advocacy department.
From this page, you can download a PDF version. |
Share these justice- and
water-related stories throughout the
church year to highlight the life-saving efforts
made possible by our gifts
to the ELCA World Hunger Appeal and ELCA Disaster
Response. This resource is
part of the World
Hunger Resource Packet.
DOWNLOAD
all stories
(2.0 MB)
ORDER stories online (free)
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 An
issue (PDF) of
LifeLines,
the quarterly newsletter of ELCA World Hunger, focused on
access to clean water. Articles cover topics
such as:
- Water access and
pollution in Chile and Peru
- "Where there's a well,
there's a way"
- Questioning Coca-Cola's
water-extraction methods
- Columns from the Appeal
director and Program director, and more
Go to
water-themed newsletter (PDF)
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The city of Tampa, Florida, offers
a form where you can estimate your daily water use.
Try it out--you might be surprised how much water you use
every day!
Personal Water-Use Calculator |
Lutheran World Information, the
information and news service of the Lutheran World
Federation, devoted an issue (number nine in 2006, titled
“Waters of Life”) of its regular newsletter to water.
Click here (or on the graphic to the right) to download
a PDF version of this report.
Give the gift of
water to people in the world who lack access to clean water
through the ELCA Good Gifts
catalog. |
"World Water Day is an international day of observance and
action to draw attention to the plight of the more than 1
billion people world wide that lack access to clean, safe
drinking water..."
Go to Web site
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PDF
[Copy the
first two pages front-to-back, repeat with pages 3-4
and 5-6. ]
These water exercises
are a great way to get your congregation or group engaged in
physical activities that symbolize the importance of water,
access to clean water, and conserving water. You might
want to wear a bathing suit!
Find facts about access to safe
drinking water (1 in 6 people lacks safe drinking water) and
about world hunger in general.
Go to World Hunger Facts.
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"It was a (Peruvian) mountaintop
experience. The extended family—farm families, local
partners, and staff from Lutheran World Relief and the ELCA
World Hunger Appeal—gathered to celebrate a hope-filled
reservoir. 'I brought the children here today,' the
community’s schoolteacher explained, 'to see what their
parents and so many others are doing for their future'...” [Read
more - PDF file] |
"The Sixth Triennial Convention
asked Women of the ELCA everywhere to take the lead in
identifying and educating about water issues where they
live. [Check out] the items [on this page] for background
information, ideas for building water awareness efforts at
home, and educational and worship resources..." [Read
more] |
Water exercise
cards