Poverty News Blog: Turning Wine into Water

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If you watched CNN's "Heroes: An All Star Tribute" on Thanksgiving night you were introduced to Doc Hendley. He is the leader of Wine into Water, a charity that builds wells and filtration systems to provide water for the world's poor.

Hendley started the charity after traveling around the world as a break from school. During his travels, he saw how great the need for water is and it surprised him that no one was doing anything about it. So he came back to the states to do a fundraiser, then that started his journey into providing water.

From Yes Weekly Magazine, writer Ogi Overman talks about how Hendley got started.

“I began taking notice of this water crisis and don’t even know why,” said the 30 year old, “because nobody around me knew anything about it. I’d hear things like 1.1 billion people don’t have access to clean water. I started researching it a little and found that more people die from [lack of potable] water than anything else, that malaria kills more people than bullets and that water kills more children than malaria, HIV/AIDS

and tuberculosis combined. Not only did I not know that but I didn’t know anybody who knew that.”

His curiosity and then his passions aroused, Hendley took it a step further, organizing an event designed to raise both awareness and funds. He dubbed it “Wine To Water,” a double entendre reversing the order of Jesus’ miracle of turning water into wine for the marriage ceremony at Cana.

“My only skill set was as a bartender,” he said.

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