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Project Hope

Liberian clean-water project expands to offer help to the blind

by Janie Magruder

Healing the blind was among the most dramatic miracles of Jesus which are recounted in the Bible. Using mud, saliva or a simple touch and the power of faith, Jesus made the blind to see time and time again.

We’ll never be able to follow that. However, a new expansion of Dayspring’s mission work in Liberia is enabling us to help in other ways those who cannot see or have difficulties with their vision.

Dayspring’s Project Hope Clean Water Wells project, which since 2018 has been bringing life-sustaining water to people in rural Liberia, is reaching out to assist young people who are blind or visually impaired.

Residents of the home for the blind in Liberia

Prince Mayson, who founded and leads the water project in conjunction with the Dayspring Children’s Ministry, learned about a group home in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital city, where more than 25 blind children and youth reside. He and the Dayspring youth are collecting walking canes, sunglasses, clothing, shoes and toiletries for the center and its residents this summer.

An initial clothing drive was shepherded by the Mayson family for people living in the communities where Dayspring has raised money to build six clean water wells in and around Monrovia.

In mid-June, Mayson traveled from Arizona to Liberia where he will spend a month building an additional two wells, bringing the total to eight.

Mayson, right, looks at one of the completed wells.

“When you see a need, you think, ‘I can help,’ and so you do,” he said. “The love that you receive for helping someone, you feel a peacefulness in your heart. To see people there excited because they have clean water all the time is really good stuff.”

If you would like to donate clothing, shoes or other items to the project for the visually impaired, or help with Project Hope, email Andrea.

Residents of the home for the blind enjoy singing together