Water for Freedom Park

Every week Lincoln goes to Freedom Park (an informal shanty town made of tin shacks with no running water or electricity) to bring food, water and God’s love to the people who live there. He goes with one of the in-home caregivers who takes him to the people who are in the most need. A lot of the patients are HIV positive and need to take medication. In order to be eligible to receive medication the patients have to be well nourished and hydrated or the medication will not work. So, Lincoln brings food and water. The food and water he provides is quite possibly the only food and water those patients will receive that week.
We have started asking people to save their empty water and soda bottles so that we can use them to fill with water to bring to Freedom Park. Each week our kitchen looks like a water bottling factory. (See picture above.) We are doing all that we can, but the need is so tremendous it feels like we are barely even making a dent. But it is great for Lincoln to be able to develop relationships with the people there and see that he really is making a difference in those people’s lives.