{"id":1443,"date":"2011-03-02T12:48:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2011-03-02T12:48:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:48:26","slug":"water-project-gives-women-a-different-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/2011\/03\/water-project-gives-women-a-different-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Project Gives Women a Different Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kelecho Gerbi Water and Sanitation Project is giving women a different perspective.\u00a0 Before the project they had to walk about five miles to get water for their family.\u00a0 The irony was that water may bring illnesses through diarrhea and dysentery and could prove fatal for their children.\u00a0 That was their role.\u00a0 This project brings clean potable water 10 minutes away from their home.\u00a0 Now with the time saved they can go to school and take advantage of the gender awareness training and the school hygiene club.\u00a0 Through these avenues they can see themselves as teachers, village hygiene promoters, or anything their minds can fathom as they go through school.\u00a0 Thanks to Covenant World Relief the women in Kelecho Gerbi can see life beyond bearing children and bearing water.\u00a0 They can see limitless God-given possibilities and have a luxury they\u2019ve not had before, the luxury to choose.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1442\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Ethiopia-women.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[1443]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1442\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1442\" title=\"Ethiopia women\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Ethiopia-women.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Training sessions with the women of Kelecho Gerbi.  Sessions include gender awareness, hygiene education, HIV\/AIDS awareness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211;Williadean Crear, North Park Theological Seminary student<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=1443&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kelecho Gerbi Water and Sanitation Project is giving women a different perspective.\u00a0 Before the project they had to walk about five miles to get water for their family.\u00a0 The irony was that water may bring illnesses through diarrhea and dysentery and could prove fatal for their children.\u00a0 That was their role.\u00a0 This project brings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[288,289,327],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-development","tag-ethiopia","tag-water","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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