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 […]
Read MoreWitnessing 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, […]
Read MoreClinic 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 […]
Read MoreHand-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 […]
Read MoreMore 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 […]
Read MoreWater 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 […]
Read MoreThe Water Tower Achechigon Built
When we arrived to the village of Achechigon, Benin, we were surprised not to see a traditional hand pump in the village. Instead, we saw this imposing concrete structure with a window on its side, two spouts coming out at the top front and two taps at the bottom. There were a handful of people lining up and getting ready to […]
Read MoreGAiN Partners With Global Affairs Canada On $4.2 Million Project
We are partnering with Global Affairs Canada to reduce the mortality rate of women and children, improve access to clean water, provide training in healthy practices and gender sensitivity, and increase absorption and consumption of nutritious foods by mothers, pregnant women, newborns and children under the age of five in Benin and Togo. On Wednesday, […]
Read MoreDinner is served with an informative experience
Food nourishes, satiates and brings people together. It did all that and more on April 9 and 10, when hobby chefs Tim Lee and Elaine Cheng hosted a dinner fundraiser in Vancouver, B.C., as part of DinnerPartyYVR and Social Bites, which had guests leaving with more than just full stomachs. Lee, the Associate Director of GAiN’s Water […]
Read More2016 DinnerPartyYVR – Elaine Cheng
Not many people can say that they have fed 5,000 people, for free, in the course of one-and-a-half hours. But Elaine Cheng can. The best (and worst) part? The meals were prepared using only food that would have otherwise ended up at the landfill. This year, as a part of DinnerPartyYVR, Elaine and her partner […]
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