“All standing for Mberi“.
Sister Vasantha is our friend and collaborator in the field, who follows up and checks on our patient Chanceline’s medical and social development. She also searches for future patients for 2024. She has now been moved to a small enclave, called Mberi, in one of the poorest and inhospitable areas of Chad. In the rainy season (three months), they are isolated because the waters of the river Logone make the only existing road impassable. Afterwards, six months of drought make the scarcity of drinking water a serious challenge to Mberi’s inhabitants.
Sister Vasantha faces a very difficult challenge before her- to manage a school that welcomes children of different villages from a region of extreme poverty. The school provides these children not only with an education but also protection and food reinforcement.
Upon assuming the direction of this center, Sister Vasantha discovered a serious problem. A few years ago, a well was dug in the schoolyard to ensure drinking water for the school and the community. This well, which is 27 meters deep, is not sufficient for the current needs for potable drinking water for the community.
Sister Vasantha has consulted drilling experts in N’jamena, the capital of Chad. All their studies have demonstrated the existence of a large reserve of drinking water at 70 meters deep below the existing school well. This would require new drilling efforts with specialized means and technicians at a cost of 5,500 Euros,
Her center, comprised of three Indian missionaries and herself, receives no support or subsidies from any organizations or any official government bodies. Sister Vasantha, who is responsible for ensuring the economic needs of the center as well as to resolving any problems that arise, has asked the Foundation to help her in finding the funds that would allow the drilling of the new well in Mberi. The hope and intention is to prevent the 300 children and their families of this community from having to move far form their homes and land.
There is abundant drinking water under the school. Water is life! Water is health!
Let’s all stand up together to support
Mberi’s people
by bringing to them life and health!
NOW THAT WE HAVE MADE VISIBLE THE GREAT PROBLEM THAT IS FACED BY SISTER VASANTHA AND HER ENTIRE COMMUNITY, WE INVITE YOU TO KINDLY HELP HER. WE OFFER YOU THE POSSIBILTY OF PARTCIPATIG IN PROVIDING LIFE AND HEALTH TO 300 CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES- ABOUT 12,000 INDIVIDULAS.
LET’S ALL STAND UP UNITED TOGETHER IN HELPING, PARTICIPATING, AND ACTING WITH EMPATHY AND COMPASSION SO THAT SISTER VASANTHA, HER STUDENTS AND THE VILLAGE OF MBERI HAVE ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER. OUR GRATITUDE TO ALL OF THOSE AMONG YOU WHO WILL STAND UP BY OUR SIDE AND GIVE SUPPORT TO MAKE THE DRILLING OF THE NEW WELL A REALITY AND PROVIDE DRINKING WATER TO THE PEOPLE OF MBERI.
“Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts.” – Margaret Mead