Alex Long, aged 14, and 14 year old Spencer Sheppard’s class were asked to raise £8 each for the charity The Water Project which works to provide clean drinking water around the world.
We got word late last night that construction is about to begin or has begun on the Elweselo Medical Clinic well.
We’ll continue to receive updates and post them here. Now that the team has both drill rigs repaired and back in service, we expect drilling work to pick up in pace.
Now is a great time to get involved and sponsor a well.
“The seventh graders of Sabrina Gooch’s second period social studies class said goodbye to soda last month as they decided to save their quarters for a worthier cause.”
Here are two pictures of Hands Helping Humanity in November. These two pictures are of some of us just getting tables/booths ready at Morse High School. I wish I had more pictures to give you, but so far this is all I have. We made posters and banners with water facts and posted it up all over the school too.
Enjoy!
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We just received word and pictures from our project at the Eburenga School. The drilling is complete, the platform framed in and and the concrete is setting. The final step will be to attach the pump. Should be just a few days before water flows!
We asked some folks taking “The Water Challenge” to share with us what they are doing to raise money to help provide clean water in Africa or India.
Our new friend Jess says…
I am helping The Water Project without a team for my bat mitzvah and I am working on a letter that I will be sending to each of my guests. They will be forwarding on to me the money they save during my 2 week project.
We say…Thanks Jess. You’re about to change a lot of lives, forever!
“Millions of people get upset if the first drops of water in their shower bear faint taints of rust. Many are outraged if their hot water is not scalding. Thousands of us take for granted the immediate provision of clean, safe, temperature-controlled water — and we shouldn’t.
We’re excited about our brand new partnership with Wells for Life to dig wells in India.
We’re even more excited about our launch partner, Northview Christian Church, whose incredible genorosity will be funding the majority of the first ten wells.
We’ll have pictures, GPS fixes, and updates posted here within weeks as the wells are dedicated.
See the Wells for India project page for more info.
We’ve just posted two great new articles by Shannyn Snyder, our research intern. She has worked to expose some more of the facts and truth about bottled water and its true value. See Bottled Water: Not such a clear choice.
As you may know, we encourage all our supporters to give up bottled water and consider filtering water at home so that they can free up some cash to help others.
Check them out the two links above.
In October 2008 one of our sand dam projects in Kenya went on display at the American Museum of Natural History in their Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future exhibition.
