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Local church holds fundraiser, water conservation challenge
- -- DennyScott
signal -star staff
Trinity Christian Reformed Church is offer-
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shop for that pesky person who has everything
by giving to those with next to nothing.
The church is offering gifts, and challeng-
ing their congregation to raise money to place
a well in in a village in Niger through the
Wells for Niger program.
Pastor Stephen Tamming explained that
Trinity is pairing with the Christian Reformed
World Relief Committee to help provide
funding and instruction for Nigeriens to build
wells in their communities.
"That's one of the great things about this
program," Tamming explained. "We don't do
the Western thing, we don't just go in and do
the work for [the Nigerians]. They're there ev-
ery step of the way."
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The church is suggesting that donations can
be made as gifts, but they are also suggesting
the fundraiser be used as a challenge to help
raise money and conserve water throughout
the holiday season. Most prominently, the
church supplies pamphlets suggesting that
every time someone uses water, they can
contribute to a donation fund; paying $1 for
a shower, 25 cents for flushing the toilet, 25
cents for a cup of coffee or tea, $2 for washing
a car, and so on.
The idea for the fundraiser came during
the summer, Tamming said, and is inspired
by a specific bible verse; Matthew:25, which
depicts Jesus as saying he was thirsty, and
the implications of simply giving a drink to
someone who needs it.
"We are called on to help people everyday,
so that's what we're doing," Tamming said.
Niger is a landlocked country in Africa, and
one of the poorest in the continent. According
to the documentation provided by the church,
63 per cent of its populace earns less than $1
a day.
Niger has very little water, and draughts
and the quality of water the nation does have
causes poverty there. Imbibing the tainted
water causes cholera, typhoid, hepatitis and
diarrhea, which can result in the death of 25
per cent of younger Nigeriens. The lack of
water also splits up families, as mothers walk
every day to find clean water, and are sepa-
rated from their family.
Located right on the boarder of the Subsa-
haran region of Africa, Niger has an annual
precipitation of 500 mm, and has tempera-
tures that range 14 to 34 degrees Celsius in
the cold season, and 27 to 41 degrees in the
warm season. This can be compared to Ontar-
io's over 1,000 mm annual precipitation and
much cooler temperatures of -20 to 5 degree
temperatures in the cold seasons, and 15 to 32
degree temperature in the warm seasons.
For more information, or a package detail-
ing options to help raise money for the Wells
for Niger program, visit the Trinity Christian
Reformed Church at 321 Suncoast Drive
East, or call 519-524-8003. The program is
open to anyone interested.
Photo contributed
Wells provide the only clean drinking water
in Niger - an extremely poor country land-
locked in the Sub-Saharan Desert. Trinity
Christian Reformed Church is running a
fundraiser to dig a well in the country.