Clean water is vital for life. For everyone everywhere. Finding water is a daily challenge for young girls, moms and sons in sub Sahara Africa. Providing a reliable and safe water source will unlock potential by returning time for study, work, and imagination. We have partnered for the last eight years with The Water Project to help end the water crisis and restore hope. The Water Project are disciples of Jesus who serve everyone everywhere with providing a "cup of cool water".
This year we set the ambitious goal of raising enough funds to build two community water points. The generosity of the Mirabeau Chapel community provided over $11,000 in order to do this!! Here are the projects and the links to continually follow them.
2019 Project- Targrin Health Post
Targrin used to be a very rural part of the chiefdom despite the fact that it is the gateway to Sierra Leone. This community is steadily being transformed into a fishing community and this means that more people are moving here. Targrin Health Post is a health clinic that serves more than 10,000 people in this area. The concept for a health center in this community was developed by the community people themselves.
There is a well on the clinic grounds used by local community members and people at the clinic, but it is not closed with a pump. That means the clean water in the ground is contaminated by the containers and other debris that fall in when people open the hatch to fetch water. Lowering a bucket down also slows down the process of fetching water, which forces people to use other sources including an open swamp.
We are excited to share that there is a safe, reliable water point at Targrin Health Post in Sierra Leone that is already providing clean water to students and neighboring community members! We also conducted hygiene and sanitation training, which focused on healthy practices such as hand washing and using latrines.
2018 Projects
Kenya: Protected Spring Project
The project utilizes and grows local leadership to build the projected spring, upgrade sanitation, educate on hygiene and sanitation, and monitors the outcome.
Uganda: Well and Hand Pump
The project utilizes and grows local leadership to drill a well and install a hand pump. They will drill the well, install the pump, educate on hygiene and sanitation, and monitor the outcome. If all goes as planned, the community is left with a safe, closed water source providing around 5 gallons of water a minute through a hand-pump.
