{"id":1110,"date":"2009-09-14T13:13:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T18:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:55:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:55:02","slug":"st-thomas-ack-church-lunza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/2009\/09\/14\/st-thomas-ack-church-lunza\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Thomas ACK Church &#8211; Lunza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"365\" height=\"274\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"play\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"loop\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"r\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6543363&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"right\" \/><param name=\"vspace\" value=\"10\" \/><param name=\"hspace\" value=\"10\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"365\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6543363&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" wmode=\"transparent\" salign=\"r\" quality=\"high\" loop=\"false\" play=\"false\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>A new well has just been completed at the St. Thomas ACK Church in Lunza.\u00a0 This well is located about 30 km from Kakamega, Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Lat. 00.22883<sup>0<\/sup>N\u00a0 034.54129<sup>0<\/sup>E<\/p>\n<p>The well serves the 520 church members in addition to the entire surrounding community.\u00a0 The church is a convenient and publicly accessible location for this well.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, you&#8217;ll meet Mildred, a mother of triplets who today is benefiting from this new, clean and safe source of drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>A water committee of 4 men and 5 women oversee the project and will help ensure its long-term sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the well being installed, members of this community walked at least 2km to a passing stream nearby where the water was neither clean or safe.<\/p>\n<p><!--more See pictures and who helped inside -->This well was funded by:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Individual Donations:\u00a0 May 14th, 2009 &#8211; 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Come meet Mildred, a mother of triplets, who is benefiting from this well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,37,8,6],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-updates","tag-church","tag-community-center","tag-kenya","tag-well"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57857,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/57857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}