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Who Benefits?

Proceeds from entry fees and donations benefit local and global communities with the majority of proceeds going to support establishment of clean water systems in developing countries where contaminated water is the #1 cause of death.

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Over 1 billion people today
do not have access to safe water.

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Every 15 seconds a child dies
of a waterborne disease.

With your sponsorship you will also be enabling many people to serve in the following ways:

  • Support Orphanages
  • Abstinence Training
  • Provide Solar-Powered Audio Players for Health and Biblical Training
  • Establish and Support Food and Soup Kitchens
  • Caring for Elderly Shut-ins
  • Health Care Outreach
  • Local Community Outreach

Water Installation Begins

Installation begins at Upper Matasia Academy in
Kenya, a school with 330 students from poor families.

 

Completed water tanks

New water tanks installed at the Methodist
Theological Institute in Nigeria

 

children filling water bottles

Children at the West Africa Theological Seminary
in Nigeria fill their bottles with purified water.

 

newly installed water purifier

The site manager with a newly installed purifier at
the Maji Mazuri farm and school complex in Kenya

 

Training Session

A Training Session for the New Water System

 

woman with a bucket of water on her head

A Woman Carries Clean Water from the Well

 

Latino child with pigtails

Support for Orphanages

 

elderly man with two team members

Caring for Elderly Shut-ins

 

Abstinance education class

Abstinence Education

 

a woman listens to a solar-powered audio player

Solar-powered Audio Players for Health and Bible

 

men help to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina

Community Outreach

 

a health outreach seminar

Health Outreach

 

Cherona

Cherona, an orphan in Kenya, is depending
on teams to install clean water in her village.

A child gathers water from lake

The need is great - a young boy fills a bucket
with unpurified water from a lake near his home.

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