Looking Back at 2024
As we await the beginning of a new year, we’re grateful that 2024 was a busy and impactful year for H2O4ALL. Not only were we able to bring safe water to thousands of people in struggling communities around the world, but we also broke new ground in communities in Cuba, Liberia, Uganda and Kenya; forged new partnerships; and saw our long-standing projects continue to flourish.
Our work in 2024 began at Lusera Village in Kyabologo Parish, Uganda. Our longtime partners from Reach One Touch One Ministries have an outreach centre in the community, which provides financial and medical support to the community’s seniors. However, the centre struggled from the same water scarcity as the rest of the community – a major hindrance to providing medical support, since the centre’s staff rarely had the water they needed to maintain sanitation and keep themselves and their patients safe.
With the opening of the Outreach Centre’s new safe water system in February 2024, the staff at the ROTOM Outreach Centre have the clean water they need to provide safe and effective medical care to the Lusera community. In addition, more than two thousand people in the community can stop relying on unprotected sources, reducing the risk of waterborne diseases for Lusera families.
Spring 2024 saw our Kenya project team breaking new ground at Mailiari Health Centre in Nairiri, Meru County, Kenya. The health centre provides medical care for more than 6,000 people in the area, but the dire water situation in the area posed a massive risk to both staff members and patients. Meanwhile, many families in Nairiri lived without knowing where they would find water the next day.
At the beginning of May, the health centre’s new water system was opened to the public. More than six thousand people in Nairiri and the surrounding communities have access to a reliable safe water source, in an area where many families do not know where they will find water tomorrow.
We also partnered with our friends from Life 365 Church to distribute safe water filters in Margibi County, Liberia. Twenty filters were distributed to churches in struggling communities, providing a safe and reliable way for hundreds of people in water-stressed communities to avoid waterborne diseases.
In the fall, we once again joined forces with Reach One Touch One Ministries to bring safe water to Kibaale Village in Bukango Sub County, Bukomansimbi District, Uganda. Until this year, over three-quarters of the Kibaale community has survived without safe water access. The few existing wells in the region frequently run dry, and most local water sources are unprotected and often contaminated. As a result, waterborne diseases were a constant threat in the community.
Finally, just last month we returned to Villa Clara, Cuba, to continue our partnership with Assemblies of God. We completed our hundredth project as our Cuba volunteers installed a safe water system at Camajuani Church in Villa Clara, Cuba. The system will provide safe, clean, and reliable water to the church and its parishioners, along with hundreds of people in the community. We’re grateful to the volunteers who have made this project possible.
To everyone who helped make these projects possible, we’d like to say thank you and happy new year. Here’s hoping that 2025 brings new partnerships and new opportunities to make change!
