
The Culprit of Nicaragua’s Water Crisis
Nicaragua’s water crisis isn’t just about how much water is available to drink. It’s also about the quality of the water. Learn more about the true culprit here.
Delivering food, shelter, and hope to the poorest of the poor
Around the world, families in remote, rural communities desperately need reliable sources of safe, clean water. For example, in rural areas, filthy latrines leak pollutants into the water supply of many families, causing their children to get sick.
Today, you can help end this suffering by supporting our current effort to supply these communities in Nicaragua and others around the world with clean, reliable drinking water sources.
Martha Irene Vargas Sánchez doesn’t know what it is like to have a ready supply of clean water to drink. To drink, bathe and cook, she and her family rely on water from shallow, hand-dug wells that are full of contaminants. When the dry season comes, her situation is worse because even those water sources dry up. “With a shovel or by hand, we drill it a little bit until the water comes out,” Martha explained.
She believes that gaining access to a clean, dependable water source at home would change her family’s lives dramatically. “To have drinking water here in our house would be the most fabulous thing that could happen to us. It would be something wonderful because we have difficulties with the wells and we have to carry water for a long time. With our own faucet, the situation would be different… everything would be calm.”
Martha hopes her son Jonathan will grow up with clean water. Your support will help make the dream of clean water a reality for many mothers like her.
Martha believes a clean water system would transform her life.
As a Cross Mission Partner, you have the opportunity to bless families like Martha’s every month with the gift of clean water.
Your monthly gift empowers our ministry partners to meet the most urgent needs of their communities and honors Christ by serving families in developing communities around the world.
Every dollar helps us bless the least of our brothers and sisters throughout Nicaragua and the world.
Donors like you have help to bring clean water and renewed hope to families worldwide.
When families gain access to clean water, their lives naturally improve. More than just water projects, these initiatives revitalizes downtrodden communities, restoring hope, inspiring change, providing knowledge and resources, and even increasing families’ income-generating power.
In Nicaragua, for instance, we’re working closely with our longtime ministry partner to drill wells and professionally install water systems in six communities. The project will bring more than 1,442 households fresh, clean water for the first time! With these new accessible water systems these families will have time and energy to invest in other areas of life, such as education, running a small business, tending crops and participating in Church activities.
Our support for this water project and others worldwide depends on your prayers and generosity.
A meeting of community leaders in Nicaragua, who play a critical role in implementing local development projects and enacting long-term transformation.
Join Cross Catholic Outreach in an outpouring of clean water and God’s love. Help fund sustainable water solutions for poor communities in Nicaragua and around the world.
Help Quench Thirst in Jesus’ Name
Nicaragua’s water crisis isn’t just about how much water is available to drink. It’s also about the quality of the water. Learn more about the true culprit here.
Nicaragua Water Crisis: How Cross Catholic Outreach is Making an Impact While visiting the village of Pedregal, our staff members encountered a man named Jackson.
Proceeds from this campaign will be used to cover any expenditures incurred through June 30, 2024, the close of our ministry’s fiscal year. In the event that more funds are raised than needed to fully fund the project, the excess funds, if any, will be used to meet the most urgent needs of the ministry.
When you include Cross Catholic Outreach as a beneficiary in your will, trust, retirement account or life insurance policy, you will make a difference for poor communities by meeting both material and spiritual needs for generations to come. Create Your Legacy!
Our mission is to mobilize the global Catholic Church to transform the poor and their communities materially and spiritually for the glory of Jesus Christ. Your gift empowers us to serve the poorest of the poor by channeling life-changing aid through an international network of dioceses, parishes and Catholic missionaries. This cost-effective approach helps break the cycle of poverty and advance Catholic evangelization.