A Message and Update from our howFar Orphanage

Pastor John has let us know that our team in the Congo has received the monthly funds for the howFar orphanage.  Your donations have provided clean drinking water, food and another month of living for the orphans and caretakers living in our howFar orphanage in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Pastor John writes,

"We have received the funds for food at the orphanage and children were too excited to receive it!  However [and], they prayed more blessings to you."

We are so thankful for your partnership in caring for these children, and helping us to spread the Gospel throughout Africa.  

Haiti Mission Trip - April 2016:

We are excited for Diane Moffi, howFar Board Member and Director for Haiti, and her team of five, as they prepare for an upcoming trip to Haiti.  One of the orphanages they will visit on this trip is Foyer de Notre Dame de Fatima Orphanage, which houses 35-40 children.

One of the Children at Foyer de Notre Dame de Fatima Orphanage

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At this orphanage, they will paint, replace screen doors that will keep animals out of the kitchen, rework water pipes to create a better system and make plans for future plumbing work.  The team is also excited to be able to providing lunches each day for the orphans, which is a rarity for these children.

The kitchen at the orphanage - they will add screen doors to keep animals out

The dates of this trip are April 23-30, 2016.  Please pray for the Haiti team, as they work hard to support the people of Haiti, love on orphaned children, and share the gospel.

It is because of your support that this work is done.  Thank you for your prayers and donations.

Written by: Hillary Mackay, howFar Social Media and Marketing Specialist

howFar Orphanage - Day At The Park!

We wanted to share some pictures of the children from our howFar orphanage in Goma, DR Congo, on a recent outing.  We were able to send some additional funds so that they could have a special meal, and adventure away from the orphanage.  This group was taken to a safe park, where they could run and play without any danger.  Our friend, Pastor John, wrote us to say that the children “showed happiness that they had never shown before.” 

Children at the howFar orphanage - ready to enjoy fresh fruit.

Orphans anticipating a meal with chicken, meat is a rare treat in their villages.

Children arriving at a new park, eager to explore!

howFar orphans enjoy running free in a danger-free park

It is only through your generosity that these children get to have these experiences.  Because of your funding, these children will know love and joy that they would otherwise live without.  Thank you for helping us change the lives of 120 orphans in the Congo!

To join us in caring for our children, contact Hillary Mackay at hillary@howfar.org.

howFar to Deliver Rotary WAPI's to Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burindi

The How Far Foundation, Inc., an international humanitarian aid agency, will deliver 400 Water Pasteurization Indicators to rural areas in East Africa in April of 2009. Our partnership with the Rotary Club of Buford/North Gwinnett to deliver a simple and effective means of insuring safe drinking water falls into our mission of improving the quality of life for those living in remote rural villages in Sub-Sahara Africa.

"Rotary Club of Buford/North Gwinnett & North Gwinnett HS Interact Club work to make Water Pasteurization Indicators – A way to improve world health and save the lives of children through safer water!"

"BUFORD, GEORGIA - Rotary recognizes that children are the future of the world. Rotary believes that healthy and happy children are a key to achieving the goal of building international understanding and peace in the world. The Rotary Club of Buford/North Gwinnett continues to celebrate the commitment to World Understanding throughout the month of February.

Together with the Interact Club of North Gwinnet High School, the club made Water Pasteurization Indicators (WAPIs) on Valentine’s Day – February 14th. Water pasteurization is needed in many places around the world where water is contaminated, causing disease and death. The microbes that cause these diseases can be easily killed by heating water before drinking.


WAPIs are short poly-carbonate plastic tubes that are half filled with soy wax and heat sealed on both ends. The soy wax melts at about 158 degrees F, a temperature that kills many microbes including Giardia, Entamoeba, Cryptosporidium Guinea, Worm and other Worms, E Coli, Shigella, Cholera, Rotaviruses, Polioviruses, Hepatitis A virus and pasteurization of milk.

WAPIs are effectively used for water pasteurization in third world countries because they are so simple to understand. The WAPI is put into a bowl of water, which is then heated by the sun or other heat source. The wax melts at the appropriate temperature, indicating that the water is safe to drink.

Rotary recognizes that over one billion people do not have access to safe water. Preventable waterborne diseases are responsible for approximately 80% of all illnesses and deaths in the developing world. Children are especially susceptible, with nearly three million deaths each year. The deaths of three million people every year due to contaminated water is the equivalent of losing as many people every five weeks as the total deaths caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. This is an astonishing number of deaths – with most being children."

(Source: The Gwinnett Citizen)

Carolyn Hill, Rotary Club of Buford/North Gwinnett Founder said, "We are so excited to partner with Mark, and the How Far Foundation, because we can be sure that the WAPI's will be delivered directly into the hands of the people who need them most".


"Demonstrating a WAPI, Water Pasteurization Indicator, in a slum near Bujumbura, Burundi. Clean water is a crucial issue here...children still die because of bad water in this village.

The How Far Foundation, and howFar Ministries, will use the introduction of the Water Pasteurization Indicator as a platform to share the gospel message. As we teach about clean water we will introduce them to the "living water".

John 4:9 Therefore the Samaritan woman *said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
John 4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."
John 4:11 She *said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?
John 4:12 "You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?"
John 4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;
John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

If you would like to contribute to this gospel centered clean water project contact howFar Ministries at mark@howFar.org.