*open to Minnesota students ONLY Learn, engage, and advocate! Design a poster, no larger than 9×12, about how or why all Minnesotans should conserve and protect our drinking water. Safe drinking water is everyone’s responsibility. It’s up to all of us to keep it clean and safe, now and for the future. Prizes FIRST PLACE WINNERS in […]
Thank you for bringing safe water to Gombe School! Located in Uganda’s Central region in Wakiso district, Gombe Community Polytechnic School is home to a borehole well that currently provides drinking water to 500 people. Before: For almost an entire year the water produced by this well has been brown in color and unsafe to […]
Our implementing partner, Freshwater Project International, is excited to report a successful installation of the water point at Malama Primary School in Malawi! The school originally had NO clean water source and students had to walk long distances to fetch water from various unsafe water sources throughout the community, often waiting in long lines for […]
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 […]