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The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.

Liberia just needs to go through this one political transition and it can really take off. Everything's in place now. We cannot afford to put the country in the hands of someone that lacks the experience.

What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.

Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.

South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

In Nueva Esperanza, Honduras, community members pooled their resources and organized a local water committee that with CARE's technical guidance built a gravity-fed water system that now provides clean water directly to people's homes.