Provide clean & safe water for 1500 women&children

It is my pleasure to present our project progress report for the 1^st quarter (January- March 2019). The project; provide safe and clean water for 1500 children and women, is aimed at improving water supply to Mutulani community, in Makueni County, Kenya.

During this quarter, Mutulani community experienced a low season in terms of agricultural/farm production caused by poor rainfall distribution. This is because after the onset of the rain in mid November 2018, it lasted for less than a month a situation that could not nurture the crops to maturity resulting to a great percentage of crop failure. Of significant to note is that the students continued to access clean drinking water within the school compound from the tanks supplied through this project.

The Mutulani community and PEN have been following with various partners whom were approached as well as campaigning for more resources towards project completion. The Makueni County government through the department of water is one of the major partners and has given assurance of equipping the sunken Borehole in 2017 a project that is aimed at increasing the amount of water and sustaining it for the children and the community. The water will also reverse some periodical trends on water shortage through unreliable rains since the water surplus will be used for irrigation.

Once the borehole is equipped, the community and the school shall be trained on project management and sustainability then close this project and focus on the new project; “Giving children a chance to grow and learn” find the link to the project: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/giving-children-a-chance-to-learn-and-grow/

We appreciate the continued support to our project by our donors. We wish our donors a fruitful year 2019.

It is my pleasure to present our project progress report for the 4th quarter (October- December 2018). The project; provide safe and clean water for 1500 children and women, is aimed at improving water supply to Mutulani community, in Makueni County, Kenya. During the project period, the community was busy preparing their farms and planting for the October-December rains which the onset delayed up to past Mid November. This was a rare occurrence for the last two or more decades as reported by Phyllis Kilonzo who attributes that to climate change effects and calls upon people to work towards improving the current state through planting trees and harvesting more water. Mutulani project Chair, Mr Joseph Mbithi also reported a count of the trees planted in the area as over 10,000 for this season only and two check sand dams completed through community efforts to continue protecting Kyanduu Stream, their only main source of water to date. The PEN Executive Director and Project Officer visited the Minister for Water for Makueni County Government to check on the progress towards equipping the Mutulani drilled Borehole. The Minister, Hon Bob Kisyula, reported that plans are underway to equip all boreholes within the County. He assured that Mutulani is among the prioritized boreholes to be completed. PEN, Mutulani Community and Mutulani schools appreciate our donors both local and international for this selflessness in supporting this noble cause. We are also introducing our new project: Giving Children a chance to learn and grow. Kindly follow the link to the new project: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/giving-children-a-chance-to-learn-and-grow/ Thank you once more and wishing you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2019.