Powerful Pascalline
Unsafe water can cripple. It will make people sick. According to WHO, 340,000 children die each year from diarrhoeal diseases due to unsafe water and poor hygiene and sanitation. The effects of waterborne diseases are evident. People are weaker and more susceptible to infections. Women like Pascalline, from the village of Ayedero Igbo Dogbo, Benin, […]
Read MoreCelebrating True Wellness
The village of Kouorou, Benin suffered from a lack of water, depending on their only water source – the swamp. The contaminated water from the swamp caused frequent sickness, meaning villagers would spend a lot of time and money in hospitals. “We would share the same water as the animals,” Marie, a village resident of 10 […]
Read MoreTransformation in Windjinnawa
Before receiving a deep-capped well, the villagers of Windjinnawa, Benin knew that the only water available to them was unsafe and could cause them to contract deadly diseases. Still, they drank the dirty water because they had no other option. “We used to get our water from the swamp,” Village Chief Jacques told the Water for […]
Read MoreBillions around the world lack safe water, proper sanitation facilities, reveals UN report
12 July 2017 – Some three in ten people around the world lack access to safe and readily available water at home, and almost six in ten to safely managed sanitation, a new United Nations report has warned, calling on countries to do more to fulfil these basic human needs. According to the World Health […]
Read MoreShowing Love Through Sport
“Sport draws people together and creates community. It’s really neat how just one single soccer ball and an open field can bring people together. You can have a relationship with someone even though you don’t speak the same language.” – Stephanie McDonald, Benin LIFE Team trip co-leader When sports are used in conjunction with humanitarian work, […]
Read MoreWater is Life
Abandoning all other activities, Elizabeth left her village of Loukintowin to search for water. Her only chance of finding water was the nearby village five kilometers away. “Water is life. Whatever activity we might do, we cannot do it without water.” This treacherous journey cost villagers a lot. A loss of income for farmers as […]
Read More#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 […]
Read MoreCeremonies 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 […]
Read MoreTransformation 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 […]
Read MoreBringing 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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