January 24th is International Education Day, a holiday dedicated to promoting equal education access around the world and celebrating the people working for universal education access.
Currently, there are more than 250 million children and adolescents out of school.
H2O4ALL began working in Tsopoli Village, Ghana, in 2017 when we partnered with the Givers’ Care Foundation to implement a safe water system at Someh Rahma School. At the time, Tsopoli – a small village of around 500 people in Ghana’s Greater Accra region – had no safe water source. Most Tsopoli residents relied on rainwater collection or unprotected lakes for water. Furthermore, these sources were often contaminated.
In 2015, we started H2O4ALL with a mission: to bring sustainable, accessible safe water to struggling communities around the world. Odile Bartlett and Timothy Muttoo had noticed something missing from many humanitarian efforts in developing countries: an experienced and informed voice that could advocate for community water access.
2023 was our fifteenth anniversary and a year of changes. As we move forward into 2024, let’s look at what we achieved in 2023.
In 2015, we partnered with Assemblies of God Cuba to serve water-stressed communities in Cuba’s Cienfuegos District. Since then, fourteen churches in the Cienfuegos District have received safe water systems, providing thousands of community members with a much-needed alternative to local water sources.
In 2012, H2O4ALL partnered with Wine to Water to bring safe water to water-stressed areas of the Dominican Republic. With simple point-of-use water filters, we’ve brought safe water to tens of thousands of people in struggling communities – one family at a time.
Finally, we broke new ground in Kibera, outside Nairobi. This informal community is home to nearly two million people, many of whom live in poverty. Since Kibera isn’t linked to any local water systems, most people rely on the extremely polluted Nairobi River.
Last January, we partnered with Reach One Touch One Ministries to implement a safe water project at Life Primary and Secondary Schools. Thanks to that project, the schools now have a safe water system that provides up to 23,000 litres a day.
Four churches in the district received safe water systems, empowering community faith leaders to serve their communities with safe water and giving thousands of people a much-needed alternative to contaminated local water sources.
In Lusera, ROTOM’s Village Outreach Centre provides medical care and financial support to over a hundred elders and their grandchildren. The new water system will empower the Outreach Centre to provide safe and effective medical care, as well as provide a reliable safe water source close to home for thousands of people in the community.
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