{"id":738,"date":"2009-07-13T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/?p=738"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:55:03","slug":"new-well-for-the-aleko-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/2009\/07\/13\/new-well-for-the-aleko-community\/","title":{"rendered":"New well for the Aleko Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object style=\"width: 400px; height: 300px;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"r\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/images.thewaterproject.org\/images\/aleko_after.swf\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"right\" \/><param name=\"hspace\" value=\"10\" \/><embed style=\"width: 400px; height: 300px;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/images.thewaterproject.org\/images\/aleko_after.swf\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" wmode=\"transparent\" salign=\"r\" quality=\"high\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The community at Aleko in Western Kenya is enjoying it&#8217;s brand new well.\u00a0 This community well point is serving hundreds of people who, before this well was installed, walked 5km to an unprotected spring.<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more See where the community used to collect water --><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><object style=\"width: 400px; height: 300px;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"r\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/images.thewaterproject.org\/images\/aleko_before.swf\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"right\" \/><param name=\"hspace\" value=\"10\" \/><embed style=\"width: 400px; height: 300px;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/images.thewaterproject.org\/images\/aleko_before.swf\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" wmode=\"transparent\" salign=\"r\" quality=\"high\"><\/embed><\/object>Our on the ground partners &#8211; The Bridge Water Project &#8211;\u00a0 visited Aleko about 2 months ago and sent us these pictures.\u00a0 Even though we see them all the time, we were once again moved by the huge need so evident in these communities.<\/p>\n<p>Because of people, just like you, we are able to respond quickly when new communities request a well.\u00a0 We simply could not do any of this work without your help.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">We&#8217;ll have a full report from the community, including GPS coordinates, in just a few weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Aleko well serves nearly 1,000 people in the community.\u00a0 A water committee of 6 men and 4 women has been established to oversee the project going forward.\u00a0 Together with the community, they raised over $300 to cover the initial costs of surveys and permits.<\/p>\n<p>Lat. 00.32549<sup>0<\/sup>N\u00a0 Long. 034.69630<sup>0<\/sup>E<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The Community Well at Aleko was funded by:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Pathway Christian Church, San Diego, \t\t\t\tCA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[xmlgm {http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/kmz\/aleko.kmz} zoom=18]<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The community of Aleko has fresh, clean water thanks to a new well donated by Pathway Christian Church.<\/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":[8,6],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-updates","tag-kenya","tag-well"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57864,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/57864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}