“Water is life. Clean water means health“ – Audrey Hepburn
WATER PROJECT
OBJECTIVE
Statistical data from government agencies and university researchers confirm that nearly 1 billion people don’t have clean safe water to drink.
We’ve all dealt with it at various times in our lives. Recall to mind what it feels like to be thirsty and how simply your thirst was resolved. That simplicity of a refreshing drink of water is not simple for other human beings in third world countries.
Together, we can change that. Let’s fund a new source of drinking water for those who suffer needlessly without it!
Our gifts will be used to construct or rehabilitate a water project, just like the one above that World Victory funded in 2014 Lwanyengo Kenya.
BACK GROUND OF THE PROJECT
The Lwanyengo Community came together as a group in the year 2012. It comprises of women and men who agreed to come together as a group to address problems facing them as a community. The group’s current activities are table banking and farming. In this community, access to quality water for domestic use and farming is one of the major challenges experienced. In one of their routine meetings, the group discussed the issue of water as a major problem facing them. The group approached Bridge Water Project in the year 2014 to consider their request to have a borehole drilled to enable them access quality water for their entire community’s domestic use and farming.
BEFORE THE NEW WATER SOURCE
The community got water from Lwanyengo spring which is protected but is 1 kilometer away from the homesteads. During dry season the water level of the spring diminishes drastically, forcing community members to have to line up for hours waiting to fill up one jerrican.
POPULATION
The Lwanyengo community has a population of 100 households with an average number of 8 people per house (800) people.
(Note: While this many people may have access on any given day, realistically a single water source can only support a population of 350-500 people. This community would be a good candidate for a second project in the future so adequate water is available.)
HYGIENE AND SANITATION
Hygiene and sanitation condition of the project is average since most homes have kitchens, water storage facilities, dish racks outside and clothe lines. At most every home has a compost pit and pit latrines, however, no hand washing stations were seen in the community. Because of the lack of hand washing stations, there’s need for more training on Hygiene and sanitation in the community.
ASSESSING THE NEED
There’s need to drill a borehole for the proposed Lwanyengo community to enable them access quality water for their domestic use and improve their sanitation and hygiene status.
Will you join World Victory as we make a difference in the lives of people throughout the world. It is our desire to provide clean, safe water to thousands more of men, women and children in more places beyond Kenya. We need the support of others who have compassion in their heart for the people groups who need it most. Please contact us today administration@wvicc.org or click the Online Giving link above to make known that you won’t let another child die of dehydration or water born disease, and make your contribution today. Any amount helps.
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