Click for Clean Water in Cameroon

Not long ago, I attended a workshop on Dream work given by my friend Margaret. She does brilliant dream work, and because she is so amazing, I decided to go. “She is highly intuitive,” is an understatement. During the course of the evening, while people were sharing, she asked a young man from Cameroon, Africa to share his dream. He is known as Farmer Tantoh, (FT). He told his story. I later recorded it to get it right. Here it is.

FT: I was fifteen years old, back in 1996.

Me: Okay.

FT: Yeah, I was a teenager, and my father was very sick, so by then I was in High School, in tenth grade. We were studying about California’s agriculture and water, it caught my instincts and I told my dad, because I had the intuition that he was going to die one day because he was very sick.

I told my father, “I want to study agriculture and environmental protection, because it is going to take me to America one day, and the first place I want to visit in this world is California, USA.” And I wrote on the wall of my room, “California, USA.” Someday I will get to this place.

Me: *Gasps*

FT: Yeah. And my dad told me, “How come? We are poor. We don’t have money. We barely have food. How are you going to get there?” And I told my dad, “Someday I will get there. And I just have to start protecting the soil, planting crops, protecting the environment.” And my dad just told me, “If you believe in yourself, one day you shall get there.” So… So a few months later, he passed away, and that is when I started working hard, every day, keeping my records, writing my stories down, and… And then eleven years later, I was chosen to represent Africa, and the first place they took us to visit was California, USA, where I had dreamed of visiting and what I had written on the wall. And that was eleven years later.

Me: *nearly in tears* That is the most beautiful, moving story.

Today, Tantoh is studying in Green Bay, WI and has become involved in a very important competition which would provide another well in an area of the world in which people are walking seven (7) miles to get water.

Farmer Tantoh founded and currently coordinates the Save Your Future Association (SYFA; www.africasyfa.org). His project would provide Nkambe, a village in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, with a well. It is a rural region of Africa where the World Health Organization estimates that only 44% of the population has access to clean, reliable water. The rest of the province's 1.2 million inhabitants drink from streams and lakes polluted with human and animal waste.

To make a difference in many lives, just click http://bit.ly/ClickCleanWater Once you see the picture, look at the blue box on the right. If it says vote received, refresh the page. PLEASE, vote once a day until March 22.

Farmer Tantoh represents a beam of Hope for his country. Soon he will return there. Today, his biggest dream is to win this competition. Just Click for Clean Water in Cameroon. It is that easy!!

BLESSINGS BEYOND BORDERS©,


Gina Villa-Grimsby