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God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. Hebrews 6:10 |
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The Ugandan Water Project is a humanitarian effort that places rainwater collection tanks on community buildings throughout the East African nation of Uganda. Saint Nicholas recently partnered with the Ugandan Water Project to install a water collection system at Kagoma Anglican Church in the country of Uganda, East Africa. The mission was started in February 2011.
The project cost $3,500 for the complete installation and was completed in June 2011.
The reasons we chose to provide this project are four–fold:
The village of Kagoma had no safe drinking water sources or storage facilities
There are hundreds of children living in poverty in Kagoma
Girls in each family were required to make a long trip on foot for buckets of water at a stream several times a day . . . by doing so the girls could not attend school
The Gospel mandates that Christians help others in time of crisis or need
A water collection system provides help for this community in the following ways:
Clean drinking water is proven to dramatically improve a communities’ health and well-being
The project will affect the lives of over 200 families for a minimum of twenty years (a generation)
The project itself is a grass roots endeavor and will bring money into a struggling economy
Girls who once worked for their families during the day are now able to attend school
Literacy will be enhanced and opportunities to escape poverty will increase
Life spans will be lengthened and the community will be stabilized
Here is an opportunity for you to directly support an entire population in desperate need. You can help by . . . .
Forwarding this website to others who you think might be interested in supporting other missions of this type |
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