{"id":5094,"date":"2011-08-15T15:27:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T20:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:54:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:54:55","slug":"make-something-learn-something-love-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/2011\/08\/15\/make-something-learn-something-love-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Something, Learn Something, Love People"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“Every day we make something, we learn something, and we try to love people.”<\/p>\n

That’s the goal, every day, for the Lowe family from Abilene, Texas.<\/p>\n

We met Matt, Amy and their two children, Liam and Mary when they called\u00a0recently about\u00a0starting a fundraising page<\/a> so that Liam, pictured here with Dad, could love people by helping build wells in Africa.<\/p>\n

As we read through Liam’s page, we met a remarkable young man who has spent many months over the last year battling leukemia in a Texas hospital.\u00a0 Things had been going well.\u00a0 Liam had even recently been home for a month in Abilene, in remission.<\/p>\n

But Liam soon spiked a fever that just wouldn’t go away.\u00a0 While checking up on the fever and a few other symptoms in the emergency room, they discovered his cancer was back.<\/p>\n

The Lowe family returned to the hospital for more treatment and by July 29th, Liam had been back in the hospital for a few days with plenty of his own concerns.\u00a0 But, apparently, worrying about himself isn’t what helps Liam through the day.<\/p>\n

Dad and Liam were sitting together that day talking instead about how some children don’t have the food and water they need.\u00a0 They wondered why some of those children have to work instead of going to school. \u00a0As they talked about how they could love others,\u00a0 Liam decided to give some of his own money to help people in need get food and water. \u00a0He gave part of his money to buy chickens; and the other part he wanted to donate to bring clean water to children who are in need.\u00a0 But that still wasn’t enough.<\/p>\n

Liam’s a big thinker. His big goal was to fund two entire wells in Africa!\u00a0 So the Lowe family set the goal of raising $13,500, the average cost of two wells in many of the countries where The Water Project works.\u00a0 Amy was sure they could meet this goal.\u00a0 They are surrounded by loving family and friends…who all lent a hand.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, only two weeks later,\u00a0 Liam had reached his goal!\u00a0 Within days, the local paper heard of Liam and his acts of love and published a great story about this young hero<\/a>.\u00a0 The day the article ran, Liam’s original page<\/a> received even more donations, this time from new friends the Lowe’s have never met. Taking a cue from Liam’s younger friends, who donated amounts like $4.25, $6.68 and $5.17,\u00a0 many folks seemingly emptied their piggy banks to help Liam raise more than he dreamed.<\/p>\n

Everyone seems eager to follow the example of this courageous boy.\u00a0 Liam inspires.\u00a0\u00a0 In the midst of fighting his own battle with cancer, he is strong enough to create hope in the lives of others – half a world away.\u00a0 All by simply living each day to create, to learn and to love.<\/p>\n

We have all learned a lot from Liam.\u00a0 So, that leaves the rest of today to create and to love…<\/p>\n

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“Every day we make something, we learn something, and we try to love people.” That’s the goal, every day, for the Lowe family from Abilene, Texas. We met Matt, Amy and their two children, Liam and Mary when they called\u00a0recently about\u00a0starting a fundraising page so that Liam, pictured here with Dad, could love people by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-groups"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57824,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions\/57824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}