Once you carry your own water, you will learn the value of every drop

This is something the majority in the West will never truly understand. Before I left Tanzania for Sweden just over a week ago, many wells had dried up and people had to walk long distances to fetch water. We waited desperately for the rains that have now finally arrived.

Imagine if you had to fetch every single drop you drink, use for cooking, washing, dishes and showering from a well a kilometre from home. I am convinced you would be significantly more careful with it.

There is so much we take so completely for granted that we forget to be grateful for how good we have it. To be grateful for having a roof over your head, a bed to sleep in, food to eat every day. Things that are far from given for the people in the villages where we work in Tanzania and in many other places in the world.

So today I will be grateful. Grateful for what I have.