Take it on the chin and get up again!

How many times have we been flooded? Too many to count; and this is just a small disaster on the world stage. Floodwaters from the collapse of a huge dam is southern Laos, just 30 miles north of three FCOP Church Homes in northern Cambodia. Floods have caused the evacuation of over 5,000 people. Cambodian government officials stated that failure of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam in Laos on July 24th flushed about 1.5 billion gallons of water directly into northeast Cambodia, which had already been inundated after heavy rains. Typhoid fever is an active killer in times of flood. The most common means of spreading the disease in Cambodia is through water supplies infected with fecal bacteria. Infected persons can go from first symptoms to death in just a few days. Clean drinking water is a big problem, when all surface wells have been polluted with flood water. We have to prepare our homes with special antibacterial filters for drinking water. Lukas and Jenny Graf brought a team of Swiss volunteers and protected another seven homes. Only God knows how many lives they have saved.

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