Provide Clean Water for 1,000 Students in Kenya
Summary
Send students back to school with clean water. This project will provide funding to dig two wells at schools in Western Kenya. Each well will serve up to 1,000 students and the surrounding community.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Students walk up to 7km to fetch their water for the day. And these very water sources are unclean and unsafe. The time wasted traveling to gather water can be better spent in class. Easy access to clean water reduces water-borne disease and keeps kids in class. The lack of clean water disproportionately effects girls, as they are often the ones tasked with gathering water. Lack of water for proper hygiene also keeps girls away. Clean water profoundly changes the lives of children.
Activities
Our local partner mobilizes the community around the school and establishes a water committee to oversee the project. The communities makes tangible investments into the water project further ensuring long-term sustainability. Then they dig.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $6,450
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $5,550
Total Funding Goal: $12,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Access to clean water reduces disease, improves education, empowers women by returning them to more meaningful work and unburdens entire communities, helping them to break the cycle of poverty. Water changes everything.
Project Message
"The project was wonderful, the people in the Villages are so happy, the pupils has water and the people in the Villages around. There is no more fighting over the water source."
- Zuddy Ogogo, Previous Project Participant
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Peter Chasse
President
PO Box 39487
Charlotte, NC 28278
United States
704-900-7910
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
The Water Project, Inc.
PO Box 39487
Charlottle,
NC
28278
United States
704-900-7910
http://thewaterproject.org
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Kenya
and can also be found under 
Children.
For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 18, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 16, 2009
Latest Update from the Field
Shanderema School Well
By Peter Chasse - First Well Complete, November 18, 2009 04:18 PM
The well is located at:
00.36046 N
34.91648 E
about 22km from Kakamega, Kenya.
A water committee of 3 men & 4 women are overseeing the project. They, together with the community, raised the initial funds needed to secure geological reports and permits. This investment demonstrates a partnership and helps ensure their long-term commitment to the project.
Prior to the completion of the well, students from the school gathered water from an unprotected stream about 2.5km from the school. A community member noted, "that their current water source like many others caused water borne diseases like diarrhea, dysentery and coughs. It's [was] also too expensive to treat it to make it clean."
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