Wycliffe Associates has launched Operation Clean Water in order to help millions of people who are in need of clean water and sanitation.
Bruce Smith, who serves as president, is investing Wycliffe funds and using volunteer help to assist people living in regions where sanitation and water supplies are extremely compromised. "Actually, we're finding that this is a global need," he reports. "It's actually on the top-ten urgent needs of ... the United Nations and other health organizations around the world." Research shows that a child dies every 15 seconds in Third World countries due to bad water and a lack of sanitation. "It's an urgent need that our translation teams are facing in their communities," Smith points out. "Firstly, because it impacts the health and welfare of the people that they're serving; [and] secondly, it creates difficulty for the translators themselves to survive without good, clean water," he explains. It is estimated that 200 million people do not have clean water -- but many will, as Wycliffe's translators work to provide them Bibles in their own language, as well as healthy water.
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