#WorldWaterDay
Did you have a glass of water today? Was it safe to drink? For Elizabeth, the source of water she depended on was filthy and parasite-ridden. Yet, she lost countless hours in her day searching for it. “Whatever activity we might do, we cannot do it without water.” This is a daily reality for millions […]
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Ceremonies to celebrate new wells
In Africa, nothing commemorates an important event like a ceremony. And after the implementation of a water well, a celebration is very much in order. We designed a ceremony with plans to celebrate new beginnings in each village where we complete a well. To officially hand the well over to the community, we involve village […]
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Transformation in Tanzania
As our team travels from village to village, a common theme we hear is that we are making history. The village leaders say that the problem of disease and lack of clean water are now history in their villages. It is a problem of the past that the villagers are glad to leave behind. With […]
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Bringing True Life
In a village where you have to put chemicals into dirty water to make it drinkable because cleaner water is 15 kilometres away, it is no surprise that providing a deep-capped water well becomes a major event. That is what happened in Hountakon, Benin. The entire village came out to watch the installation of a […]
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Building Sustainable Futures
While done with good intentions, there have been water systems set up for developing countries that fail to sustain themselves – sometimes breaking down just a few years later, according to a 2004 report from Rural Water Supply Network – leaving villagers without clean water once again. As a result, GAiN’s Water for Life Initiative (WFLI) Sustainability […]
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Witnessing word and deed work together
“I think I had a romanticized idea of what the trip was going to be like,” Kyra admitted about the LIFE Team to Benin that she participated in last May. She was ready for a life-changing experience, and a life-changing experience is what she got, but it happened in a way she did not expect. “Going into it, […]
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Clinic Loses Patients
Today, the Togolese village called Kpategan is fortunate enough to have a medical clinic in their village, as well as a deep-capped water well drilled directly in front of the clinic. But…this wasn’t always the case. If a woman came to deliver a baby in the night, the local midwife and staff would go to the […]
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Hand-in-hand
Water is a scarce commodity in the village of Nandili in Southern Tanzania. Before we provided a deep-capped water well in this village, the people had no option but to travel 18km to find clean and safe water. Women used to spend most of their day travelling to collect parasite-ridden water on the back of […]
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More than clean water
The farming village of Kimawe in Southern Tanzania is surrounded by hills. As the country enters its dry season, there is an especially great need for clean and safe water in this area. Villagers travel up to three hours to find water, crossing farmland and over hills for a single bucket of water that wasn’t […]
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Water Brings Credibility
When we visited the village of Adjaha Vodjein, Benin, the team was greeted by Pastor Ansel who hopped off his motorcycle and embraced us with a big hug. Our Water for Life Initiative had partnered with him and the JESUS Film Church Planting Strategy (JFCPS). He was excited to see us and expressed how he had seen our strategy work. “The need for water is really big […]
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