Project Report
| Mar 16, 2017
Walking for Water
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Libby on the First Leg of Her Walk
A recent article from
IRIN describes the current situation in Kenya: "Kenya’s longest watercourse, the 1,000-kilometre-long Tana River, provides the country with
60 percent of its electricity and Nairobi with
80 percent of its drinking water. But the river’s water availability per capita is only
a fifth what it was 50 years ago. The Tana is being drained by the nation’s fast demographic growth and the government’s ambitious development plans."
As a senior staff at New Life Kilimani recently put it: "As more and more buildings go UP (like the new 18-storey one directly across the road from us), so the water table goes DOWN!"
With the many health issues that arise from unclean water, the necessity for a pure and constant water supply at our New Life homes, especially for treating recent recues babies, remains urgent. A clean, safe, and reliable water supply means life -- for drinking, cooking, warming bottles of milk, washing babies, cleaning diapers and clothes, keeping the homes clean and the floors mopped that the babies crawl on, keeping the rescue vehicles clean and hygienic for the vulnerable babies we bring home to New Life, in addition to water for playing and keeping cool near the equator ... the list of how clean water is used in the daily life of caring for 50+ rescued infants is LONG.
In response to the growing urgency in Kilimani, one New Life supporter devised a plan to walk the distance of Kenya across her home town of Aberdeenshire to help us continue to offer our rescued infants new life and access to quality medical care. The furthest distance across Kenya, from the northeast to the southwest, is 1,131km. As the water crisis grows, Libby plans to complete her walk across Aberdeenshire in chunks, specifically to raise money for our borehole in Nairobi.
Libby described New Life in this way:
"The amazing thing about the work of New Life Home is that the majority of the babies who are rescued are adopted into 'forever' families, and most are adopted by local Kenyan families. Right now New Life is fundraising to secure their water supplies. Each home has its own bore hole, but with much new construction happening round and about, the water tables are being disturbed and diminished."
We cannot continue to offer a lifeline to abandoned Kenyan infants if we are not adequately prepared to care for their needs. Your donations help keep our water supply clean and sustainable, and ensure a good, healthy new life for beautiful little babies. Please consider donating now or joining supporters like Libby who are creatively engaging others in a conversation about water, life, and the opportunity we hold to provide life on behalf of the most vulnerable.
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Precious Newborn Rescue
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