No Place Too Far

Margarita motions toward the landscape, to the hillside homes where families like hers now enjoy safe water from taps. Words rush from her—grateful, breathless, overflowing with blessings and unfiltered joy as she describes the collaborations and kindness and divine intervention that conspired to bring this dream to life. She gestures wildly, cheeks flushed with happy urgency, animated by the levity, the relief, the freedom that safe water brings! Until she needs to stop to catch her breath.

A pause.

She smiles still, but her voice falters and her eyes well when her words drift toward the before—the sickness, the suffering of elders, the mothers sitting helpless in health centers with fevered children. And perhaps just as painfully, the years of being overlooked—being dismissed by officials who deemed her community too remote. Too far. Too poor. Too small. Just too hard to reach.

But Margarita was not too proud to lead a charge anyway. To seek out help. To gather support. And when someone finally listened, Cova was there. Is still there. Simple water treatment means safe water now flows.

Though she has every reason to linger in the trials of the past, Margarita prefers not to dwell in the yesterdays. With a clearing of her throat, she shifts once more toward hope, toward the horizon. Toward what’s next for her community. A school that goes beyond third grade, she dreams. Maybe a modest community center. With the seemingly impossible achieved, everything feels within reach. Nothing is too far.

There’s a resilience in the air. There must be something in the water.

During our ten-day Spring Campaign (May 14-May 23), we are asking, What If. What if there was no place too far? What if you could bring another community’s dream to life.