WORKING ACROSS UGANDA|KENYA|RWANDA|BURUNDI|TANZANIA|DR CONGO
Watchmen International is a UK-registered Christian charity operating predominantly in Africa.
Working across the Christian denominations, we are engaging in Christian discipleship and training, nursery education and a clean water project, both in urban and rural locations.
| LIFEWATER
The Problem
More than 1 billion people world wide have no access to clean water. Water-borne disease is responsible for over 12 million deaths a year. Lack of access to clean water means that, for most of the world, water must be boiled before drinking. This is a major undertaking and, with rapidly diminishing natural resources, the environmental and human impact of this activity is significant - consuming huge quantities of energy, resource and time. For many, the simple cost of purchasing fuel - such as wood or charcoal - is prohibitive. In addition, boiled unfiltered water is generally unpleasant to the taste.
A Simple Solution
Technologies and chemicals available to western cultures to clean water are often not transferable or culturally appropriate to the poor communities of the Third World . Watchmen International has therefore designed a cheap and simple 'low-tech' water filtration kit. These inexpensive kits transform disease-infected water into safe, pure and pleasant-tasting drinking water that requires no boiling. The kits, coupled together with readily available plastic bins are quickly and easily assembled to provide individual families, schools and other organisations with an instant answer to water-borne sickness and even death. A report from one of our nursery schools in Kenya indicated that, since installing a LifeWater kit, daily absenteeism of children due to sickness had reduced from more than 25% to 5%.
What can I do to Help?
A gift of £15 enables us to sponsor and set up an initial LifeWater unit in a school, clinic or hospital, thereby providing clean and safe drinking water to hundreds in the local communities in which we work. For more details please go to the sponsorship page.
