Birijaku Primary School is located in a very needy part of West Nile in Koboko, Uganda. BEFORE: The school has just over 1,500 students and no water! This community is made up of locals and refugees from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The only current water source is rain, which the […]
This past year at Osceola High School (WI), Emily Fox and I (Brooke Bents), partnered up to develop a service-learning project contributing to ending the global water crisis. A new club introduced to the school last year is called “Why Wait?”, which is focused on the important question: why wait to change the world? Emily […]
Ever since the installation of their rain tank last year, students and staff at Sabane Primary School in Kenya have had safe and clean water that is easily accessible in the school compound. We were told on a recent visit how cases of typhoid and diarrhea, which once ran rampant through the school population, are […]
Our implementing partner, Freshwater Project International, is excited to report a successful installation of the water point at Mselera Primary School in Malawi! The school originally had NO clean water source and students had to fetch water from a shallow, contaminated pond or walk a long distance to an old community borehole and wait in […]
Mary Rodgers, former teacher at Abington High School in PA, and H2O for Life founder, Patty Hall met at a youth leadership conference in New Mexico in 2007. H2O for Life was beginning their first year as a service-learning organization. Mary was highly interested in water resources and was one of the first schools to […]