Recently Jeff Witten, a World Vision Representative, was part of a group of people who stood above the muddy, brown water hole that serves the community of Boset, Ethiopia.
"That's when I noticed a bright-eyed kid wearing a T-shirt that said: I have a dream," remembers Jeff. He approached the boy and learned that his name was Seifu. "He said he was 14 years old and had been coming to the same water hole since he was 5 years old, even though the water made him sick."
Then Seifu asked Jeff, "So you came here to visit us, now what do you plan to do with the information you have received?"
That question stopped Jeff in his tracks. "I thought, if I don't tell his story he'll become like many other poverty-stricken people in Ethiopia. It's hard not to think about how this story will end," says Jeff. So Jeff promised Seifu that he would tell his story to people in the United States.
Jeff feels that Seifu would be incredibly successful if he lived here in the United States, but he just doesn't have the same opportunities. So that image of Seifu and his T-shirt continues to motivate Jeff to help provide Ethiopian communities with the things we take for granted.
You can help Jeff make Seifu's "dream" a reality. And that dream can begin with the simple gift of clean water and good health.
