{"id":370,"date":"2009-03-17T07:46:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/?p=370"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:55:07","slug":"four-new-wells-begin-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/2009\/03\/17\/four-new-wells-begin-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Four New Wells Begin Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re moving your donated funds into place to begin digging four new wells, three of which will be at schools.\u00a0 These new freshwater wells are being dug near Kendu Bay in Kenya.\u00a0 Each of them will serve between 1,500 &#8211; 2,000 people, mostly students.<\/p>\n<p>Our team in Kenya hopes to have the drill bits spinning this week.\u00a0 The rainy season is fast approaching and the soil in this particular area must be dry to drill in.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to see the pace of this particular project picking up speed now, as expected.\u00a0 With two fully functioning rigs, the work should be finished in good time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who Helped?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you contributed to the Wells for Schools:Kenya Campaign after July 2008, you are funding the school wells! Anyone giving to &#8220;Change Christmas&#8221; in the early part of December is helping with the community well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Stay tuned for updates.<\/p>\n<p>[xmlgm {http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/kmz\/kendu.kmz}  zoom=15]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re moving your donated funds into place to begin digging four new wells, three of which will be at schools.\u00a0 These new freshwater wells are being dug near Kendu Bay in Kenya.\u00a0 Each of them will serve between 1,500 &#8211; 2,000 people, mostly students. Our team in Kenya hopes to have the drill bits spinning [&hellip;]<\/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":[27,8,7,6],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-updates","tag-add-new-tag","tag-kenya","tag-school","tag-well"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57881,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/57881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}