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Nasaruni Girls - Underground Water Tank
If you come to Narok, and turn down a dusty, pot-holed road outside of town, you will travel 1 kilometer past ramshackle sheds and smiling shop clerks… to find a magical place where dreams come true, laughter and serious study unite. Here girls are nourished and educated, and thoroughly transformed as they grow into young women of purpose and confidence in the Maasai community. Welcome to Nasaruni Academy for Maasai Girls in Narok, Kenya!
Nasaruni Academy is situated 9km west of Narok, in the southwestern region of Kenya which is semi-arid. According to Moses Sayo, school director, the Nasaruni community is predominantly Maasai, who are pastoralists with some sporadic practice of small scale farming. The area surrounding the school consists of approximately 7000 families. Some of the main challenges faced include the illiteracy rates and extensive poverty.
Nasaruni Academy is situated 9km west of Narok, in the southwestern region of Kenya which is semi-arid. According to Moses Sayo, school director, the Nasaruni community is predominantly Maasai, who are pastoralists with some sporadic practice of small scale farming. The area surrounding the school consists of approximately 7000 families. Some of the main challenges faced include the illiteracy rates and extensive poverty.
For over 10 years, Nasaruni has been nurturing girls from the surrounding and far-reaching rural villages. They have grown to graduate from primary school, and now we built a high school so that they could keep on coming to school. Parents have come to truly embrace the education at Nasaruni because it supports their cultural values and traditions in so many tangible and real ways. Nasaruni girls celebrate Maasai culture through dance, language, beadwork, food, and folktales. Most importantly, the parents in the community chose the values of the school themselves so that they trust Nasaruni to raise their daughters since it is a boarding school where the girls live during the school terms. Nasaruni Academy is helping girls and their families to write a new future full of hope, health, empowerment and success. Started by a local Maasai woman and her husband, the Academy and Secondary School are providing a chance for education to over 250 girls currently.
The students at Nasaruni need more water catchment storage to ensure they have fresh water to drink. H2O for Life schools have generously donated guttering for several buildings at the school, as well as several new tanks. The school has now spread extensively across the 5 acres, and a larger storage for water on the high school side is necessary. Recent government officials from Water and Sanitation have suggested/required that the school needs such large storage of water for sustainability.
This proposal will provide a 50L underground cement storage tank, similar to the one shown in the photos.
This proposal will provide a 50L underground cement storage tank, similar to the one shown in the photos.
H2O for Life is not a WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) project implementer. We have partnerships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) implementing WASH in Schools projects around the world. Our NGO partners match funds needed for each school project. We also have a generous donor that provides us with an interest-free loan that, along with matching funds, allows for many projects to be started or possibly even completed before total funds have been raised. In rare situations we reserve the right to reallocate funds to alternate project(s).
Questions? Ask us at 651-756-7577 or info@h2oforlifeschools.org.
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