Water for Life
Victoria Rouse on how funds raised at the Glastonbury Pilgrimage
are helping poor communities in Masindi in northern Uganda
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ver the past year pilgrims have The water contained small worms. People urday 21 June 2008, and raise funds for
generously donated £16,822 to used to go to the toilet around here and WaterAid’s projects in Masindi over the
WaterAid’s work in Uganda, far their faeces would wash in. coming months.
surpassing the original target of £5,000. ‘The situation is very different because WaterAid will support your fundraising
in a country where a third of the popula- we now have safe water. The borehole is efforts with publicity, resources, ideas
tion do not have access to clean drinking much closer to my home so i can fetch and advice. at the Pilgrimage you can
water and over half do not have some- more water than before. we don’t have find out how your money is helping to
where safe and hygienic to go the toilet, diarrhoea or worms any more.’ By con- change lives and we will be happy to pro-
WaterAid’s projects make a huge tinuing to support WaterAid, vide you with more information about
difference. pilgrims will enable more people our work across africa, asia and the
access to a safe supply of water like Sila gain access to safe water, Pacific region.
can change lives, like Sila adeke sanitation and hygiene educa- Please remember those who live with-
‘s (pictured) from obur East vil- tion. out the most basic human needs this year,
lage, Uganda. She says, ‘The water Parishes and individuals are and thank you for giving the gift of life
from the old source was too dirty! being encouraged to attend the and hope. i look forward to seeing you at
we had no option but to drink it. Glastonbury Pilgrimage on Sat- Glastonbury in June.
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Sila Adeke gathering water before . . . and after the borehole was created
Touching Place ST ETHELDREDA’S, HORLEY, OXON
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orley is so far north in Oxfordshire walls; turn, and espy More unusual is the
that it is virtually in South in the NW corner a representation of St Zita
Warwickshire, an ironstone village for small statue of the of Lucca (d. 1272) on a
Banbury commuters. The church is a Virgin teaching the pier of the N arcade. The
tripartite Norman building of chancel, Infant Jesus to read. patroness of domestic
central tower and nave (the latter widened But perhaps the servants, she spent
in the later Middle Ages); it received a most interesting nearly fifty years in the
restoration in 1949–50 by Lawrence Dale, features of Horley service of the Farinelli
which somehow typifies the confident are in the N aisle, family, her name
spirit of the post-war CofE. which retains becoming a byword
This gave it a wrought iron screen in fragments of 15th both for patience
the western tower arch, topped by loft c. glass, particularly in the face of abuse,
and canopied rood, with figures of Our two kneeling donors. and for the prayer
Lady and St John half-turned towards A large 15th c. St and faithfulness that
the suffering Christ. Tasteful stencilled Christopher on the underpinned her life.
decoration covers the underside of the N wall reminds us of Recall that we are all
loft; the 19th c. pulpit is painted with the the medieval belief called to serve others,
legend of the patron saint (1950). Note that, if you looked on and pray for all those
a curious medieval TTT motif on the an image of the saint, who serve others,
return of the tower arch. Pass through you were safe from especially those who are
to the chancel, noting the Creed and sudden or evil death ill-treated.
Commandment boards moved to the side that day. Simon Cotton
May 2008
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