{"id":3543,"date":"2016-08-24T15:41:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T22:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2020-05-08T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T17:14:56","slug":"clean-water-lifts-mothers-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/clean-water-news-stories\/clean-water-lifts-mothers-spirit","title":{"rendered":"Clean water lifts mother\u2019s spirit, family’s burden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The brothers giggle as water pours out of the spigot, through their fingers, and into a basin. Their long sleeves hang limp on their arms, soaked from all the dipping and slurping with their hands. The boys — ages 2, 5, and 8 — splash each other as grandma and others stand guard while a herd of cattle congregate nearby at the watering trough.<\/p>\n

Then comes mom. Naomi, 24, had been watching from a distance, but now it’s her turn to partake. A couple of dips, a couple of sips, and then a gentle warning to the middle brother, Lamayan, not to splash so big. She leans back to watch them innocently play, her hands planted on the basin’s ledge to prop herself up.<\/p>\n

She pauses.<\/p>\n

Then she smiles — a smile of pure motherly joy and delight in her children.<\/p>\n

This is all that the youngest, Muterian, knows. But until just before he was born, Naomi could not have imagined a moment like this. Before there was a spigot, a basin, or a watering trough, life here in Kisapuk village in Kenya was characterized by a tormenting cycle of walking for miles, waiting for hours, filling and lifting heavy jugs, and hoping you wouldn’t get sick from the murky pond water.<\/p>\n

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