Through its own contacts in China, Bonisa Mission has arranged water shipments to two drought-stricken districts in the Yunnan province. These villages are high in the mountains that have received no rain or snow since September 2009. When they arrived to distribute water, our representatives found that there had been drinking water shortages for several months already. Town water reservoirs had turned into a basins of cracked and hardened mud. People were lining up day and night to collect some muddy water that still seeped out of a natural fountain. But since it came so slowly there was not enough for everyone.
Bonisa was privileged to establish a system of daily water delivery to various distribution points. We then provided two pails to each family. Each day they can fill these pails with water to drink, until the water contract runs out on May 31, 2010.
Among the Miao and Yi ethnic minorities who inhabit these regions there are quite a few professing Christians. However, help is given to both Christians and non-Christians alike. The villagers are touched with this expression of compassion in their deep need.
