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Provide Clean Water for 1,000 Students in Kenya

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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. project reportread updates from the field

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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: $9,165
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $2,835
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

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Peter Chasse
President
PO Box 39487
Charlotte, NC 28278
United States
704-900-7910
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Project Sponsor

Peter Chasse

Organization

The Water Project, Inc.
PO Box 39487
Charlottle, NC 28278
United States
704-900-7910
http://thewaterproject.org

Learn more about The Water Project, Inc. and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in KenyaKenya and can also be found under ChildrenChildren.

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

Boys play in the waterThe new well at ShanderemaInstalling the new pump
This first well has been completed at the Shanderema Secondary School in Western Kenya. This well serves over 400 students and a total of 747 including the surrounding community.

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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