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PIPELINE REACHING THE WORLD WITH WATER & THE WORD SPRING 2008

A Time to Rebuild THIS ISSUE...

Opportunities and Challenges in a Changing Romania

2007 YEAR IN REVIEW

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It’s amazing how much we take for granted here in the western world. Most of us have more than enough of everything, while so many others in the world don’t have enough of anything. A friend of mine recently lost his home in a ﬂood, including a lifetime’s worth

of awards and trophies. As he was lamenting his loss, the Lord reminded

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words will last forever. As we give, pray and work together to provide “a cup of water in Jesus’ name,” we can have conﬁdence that God is using us to make an eternal difference in people’s lives.

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of God this year. In 2007, we helped 1,113 communities acquire safe drinking water and experience the gospel of Jesus Christ. We would certainly appreciate your prayers as we work toward our goal of 2,000 water projects in 2008.

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ADVENT CONSPIRACY UPDATE Christmas is still changing the world. Through Advent Conspiracy, Living Water International has received almost $700,000 this Christmas season to provide a cup of water in the name of Christ. The entire Mount Barklay region of Liberia will receive safe, clean water through 30 new wells. Other wells throughout the country will be repaired. Native communities nestled far in the Amazon rainforest will no longer have to use the Amazon River and its tributaries for drinking water. Villages in Southern Sudan, Sierra Leone, Haiti and Honduras will ﬁnd their broken hand pumps repaired, restoring clean water for tens of thousands.Thank you for your compassion and generosity, for restoring the true meaning of Christmas. Share your stories of transformation with us, and check back often at www.water.cc and www.adventconspiracy.org to learn how your deeper worship, spending, love and redistribution is changing everything for communities receiving clean water.

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NEW HOPE FOR PEACE IN KENYA Peace seems to have returned to Kenya as opposing political parties agreed recently to share power. Two months of violent protests, orchestrated vandalism and murder have taken a toll on the country’s economy, government and its people. Even the Kenyan church has not been able to escape the effects of tribalism. Fist ﬁghts broke out between church leaders recently at a meeting dedicated to praying for peace. There is one bright light in this darkness— while some were battling one another in the streets, Kenyans were helping one another in the IDP camps. Wealthier Kenyans drove to the IDP camps to give anything they could spare to meet the needs of those suffering the most. Please pray with us that this agreement will bring a lasting peace to Kenya. GHANA: RECOVERING FROM LAST YEAR’S FLOODS Living Water International is rehabilitating 60 traditional hand-dug wells in northern Ghanaian communities affected by last summer’s trans-African ﬂooding. The existing wells are being disinfected, deepened, if necessary, and will receive a brand new hand pump. The heavy rains lasted four months and affected a million people across the continent. Ghana was the hardest hit. An estimated 333,000 Ghanaians were affected, losing homes, crops and livestock.

A Time to Rebuild Opportunities and Challenges in a Changing Romania by Jonathan Wiles

Romania has come a long way in the last two decades. Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu and his communist regime. It has been a long road for this eastern European state, but the last few years have seen signiﬁcant changes; Romania joined NATO in 2002, and became a member state of the European Union just over a year ago. These changes bring hope to the nation’s economy and its citizens; many new opportunities have opened up, but new and unexpected challenges have also arisen. Fifteen years ago, almost none of the country’s rural population had a clean source of drinking water. Toxic industrial waste and

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agricultural pesticides, a legacy of the careless environmental regulations of the communist era, had contaminated the water tables that supplied most rural households, schools and health clinics. In many areas people only became aware of the problem when they observed a sharp increase in miscarriages and childhood diseases. LWI Romania began working with rural communities in western Romania to ďŹ nd solutions to their water crises, which often involved drilling deeper wells, with collection points where clean water could be gathered. LWI Romania has completed over 548 water solutions of various kinds in villages, at orphanages and churches, bringing hope for the future, and starting conversations about faith in Jesus that would have been illegal before the fall of

Left: A villager near a well site in BotineĹ&#x;ti. Top: A woman gathers water for her household in the town of Ionel. Above: Boys play near a completed project on the outskirts of Timisoara.

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a time to reb communism in 1989. Last year’s entry into the European Union is slowly bringing much-needed attention and resources to address the most basic needs of rural Romanians, including water and sanitation solutions. However, there is still a long way to go. According to the latest United Nations Development Programme statistics, 84 percent of rural Romanians still lack access to an improved water source. In villages across the country, people still rely on shallow, open, hand-dug wells—in their back yards, or down the street— which are vulnerable to contamination from sewage and fertilizer run-off. In some areas, well water is so contaminated it is not even considered safe for bathing. The EU has begun rightfully enforcing tighter regulations on the environment, education and health. These will increase the quality of life in Romania in the long run, but in the short term, they present even more challenges. For example, in many villages schools are being shut down because they do not have running water inside the building. A clean supply of water outside is no longer considered to be adequate. The village of Criciova ﬁnds itself in just such a situation. Last year, they were told that their school would be closed down because the building lacked clean, running water. “This is a wonderful school,” the head teacher told us. “We have ﬁne teachers and a good rate of

Top: A woman carries cooking water home to prepare an evening meal. Above: The pumphouse in the center of Criciova distributes water across the village. Right: A teacher stands in front of Criciova’s school. Opposite: Criciova schoolchildren do their lessons; Nicu Chindea’s church sits near the center of Bacova; A trench is dug in preparation for laying pipe.

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graduation—we just don’t have water faucets inside the building.” Previously, students had brought jugs of drinking water from home. The system had never been a problem, but now the school would be closed, and the village children would have to commute to other villages—a solution which would be particularly difficult for the poorest families in Criciova. LWI Romania had drilled a well in the center of the village two years before, so the mayor of the village asked the LWI Romania team if they could help the village find a solution to the problem. As this is being written, the final pipes are being run into the school, which will now be able to keep its doors open. The project was widened to include the village health clinic, which was also under threat of closure, and neighborhoods which lie along the routes of the pipes. Criciova was one of four similar projects completed in 2007. Nicu Chindea pastors a small evangelical church in the village of Bacova. Most of the people in his village drink water from wells heavily contaminated with nitrates, from chemical pesticides that were used for years in the surrounding agricultural areas. Walking down the pothole-riddled road in front of his church, he tells us of the desperate spiritual need of the people living in villages like his. “The people here have no hope,” he said. “They are willing to talk about spiritual things, but are very skeptical.” Nicu is in the process of facilitating an LWI Romania water project in Bacova. He hopes that showing them the love of Jesus—through such a practical, physical act—will bring the community together, give them hope, and allow him to tell them about Jesus’ love for them. Nicu is not the only pastor with such a dream. “There are so many places like this,” he said, “waiting for someone to show them the love of God.” What lies around the corner for Romania—and for LWI Romania—remains to be seen. What is clear is that as long as Romania’s growth pains continue, solutions for clean water—and for the gospel of Jesus Christ to be proclaimed—will be more needed than ever.

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WORLDWAT Water—clean water—is a basic human right. It’s that simple. Yet more than a billion people are forced to live without it every day. Shouldn’t we do everything in our power to eradicate this problem?

water is... A HEALTH ISSUE. Across much of the developing world, unclean water is a far greater threat than violent conﬂict. On any given day, close to half of all people in developing countries are suffering from health problems caused by unsafe water. One-third of all deaths in developing nations are children under the age of ﬁve, compared to less than 1 percent in developed nations. Diarrhea is the leading cause. Some 1.8 million children die each year as a direct result of chronic diarrhea—that’s 4,900 every day. AN ECONOMIC ISSUE. The water crisis is, above all, a crisis for the poor. Almost two-thirds of people who lack access to clean water survive on less than two dollars a day, and one-third live on less than one dollar a day. Some might lack water because they are poor, others might be poor because they lack water, but the statistics show a two-way relationship between poverty and water deprivation. Water is essential for personal enterprises such as vegetable gardens, food preparation and laundry services. In many cases, these tiny local businesses have no formal right to the water they use and are vulnerable to larger economic and political players for their water usage. In sub-Saharan Africa, the money lost from missed work opportunities due to water-related illnesses exceeds the amount of aid and debt relief to the region. A WOMAN’S ISSUE. In most developing countries the task of collecting water falls to women. In rural Africa, women often walk 10 miles or more every day to fetch water. In the dry season it is not uncommon for women to walk twice this distance. The tragedy is that, having spent so much time and effort in reaching a source of water, the water itself is often dirty, polluted and a health hazard. One estimate suggests that some 40 billion hours of labor per year are spent collecting water in sub-Saharan Africa. The inordinate amount of time women spend carrying water disempowers them, reducing time for child care, education and income generation.

AN EDUCATIONAL ISSUE. Collecting water is not only physically stressful, but extremely time consuming. One of the most serious effects is that girls are often not able to attend school. Too often students use valuable class time to fetch water long distances from the school. They have to carry jugs that are far too heavy for their small frames, which affect the development of their spines as they grow. Frequently, the water they are collecting is contaminated. Unsafe water leads to severe outbreaks of diarrheal diseases, some of the most deadly diseases for children in the developing world. Improper waste disposal and lack of water for proper hand washing perpetuates diseases such as cholera, typhoid and hepatitis. These outbreaks force school closures, making education impossible in some rural areas. Many children who do manage to go to school have very low attendance figures and often drop out. An estimated 443 million school days are lost each year to water-related illnesses. THE FIRST STEP IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. The lack of safe water burdens families, paralyzes communities and is a leading cause of violent conflict. Where water is clean and sufficient, it is the overriding factor that extends lives, builds communities and allows the most vulnerable people in our world to break free from cycles of oppression and poverty.

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the woman and the well From birth, her story was already written for her, a story shared by all rural Indian women. She had a lifetime of back-breaking work ahead. As soon as she could walk, she hauled water, and she never stopped. She was denied schooling because her value was measured by her usefulness around the house—ﬁrst her father’s, then her husband’s. Cooking, cleaning, raising children, tending crops—she needed water for it all. Along the way, she developed a story all her own, an unspoken story that she thought would remain within her heart until her death. In 2006, LWI India drilled a well at the church in Mrs. Bhagyamma’s village. The 75-year-old couldn’t keep her story inside any longer, and told the crew all about her life. Even on the ﬁrst day of marriage, she said, she had to walk several kilometers to fetch water and was forced to defecate outside in the open, without the dignity of privacy. Even now, frail as she is, she has to fetch her own water. She thanked the crew for the well, for the clean water, and begged them to come back and teach the young girls and the rest of the community about hygiene and sanitation, to lift them out of their current situation. “What I have suffered,” she said, “I want the new generation should not suffer.” She has seen many people die from water-related diseases in her lifetime. She is an eyewitness to the statistics. “It is not only the story of the village,” she said, “it is the story of the entire rural area of [Godavari] district.”

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1.1 billion people in the world—roughly one-sixth of the world’s population—do not have access to cle

access to adequate sanitation. An average of 14,900 people die each day from water-related diseases. M

safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene—that’s the equivalent of 20 jumbo jets cra

water projects, which serve more than 7,200,000 people every day (LWI). At any one time it is estimate

(WSSCC, 2004). An estimated 88 percent of all sickness and disease in the world is attributable to inad

water is nearly four miles (UNPFA, 2002). The weight of water that women in Africa and Asia carry on the

The most a woman can carry in comfort is about four gallons. If she carries only enough water for her fam to keep them all clean and healthy, she would need to fetch 52 gallons of water every day (WaterAid, 19

You know the facts. Do someth somet

person in the United Kingdom uses 35 gallons of water every day (WaterAid). Americans consume mor

of your toilet uses as much water as the average person in the developing world uses for a whole day’s w

than all the people lost to armed conflict since World War II (WSSCC, 2004). In China, India and Indone

simple act of washing hands with soap and water can reduce diarrhea-related, disease by one-third (Bri

prevents the equivalent of eight olympic-sized swimming pools of childhood diarrhea each year. Almos

three living on less than one dollar a day (UNDP). The population of the Kibeira slum in Nairobi, Kenya,

Symposium, August 2001). In Zambia, one in five children die before their fifth birthday. In contrast, in

diseases (the consequence of a combination of lack of clean water supply and inadequate sanitation) co

the economy US$1 billion in lost tourism and agricultural exports in just 10 weeks (WaterAid). At any time

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in the environment. Intestinal worms can be controlled through better sanitation, hygiene and water. Th

infection (WaterAid). Projections for 2025 indicate that the number of people living in water-stressed co

of its volume is water. People can survive for up to two months without food, but die within three days w wastewater in developing countries is discharged into rivers and streams without any treatment (UNDP,

1997]. Comparative costs: In Europe $11 billion is spent each year on ice cream; in the USA and Europe

spent annually on alcoholic drinks – 10 times the amount required to ensure water, sanitation and hygie

countries walk 6 kilometers a day, carrying 20 liters of water (UNICEF). Almost half of the nearly 2 million d

Some 1.8 million children die as a result of diarrhea—4,900 deaths each day—or an under-five populati 10,000,000 viruses, 1,000,000 bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts, and 100 parasite eggs (UNICEF). Long-term cancers of the skin, lungs, bladder and kidney (UNICEF). In 2002, 42 per cent of households had no toilet

is 520 times less likely to die from waterborne disease than an infant in sub-Saharan Africa, where only access to at least 20 liters of clean water each day is a minimum requirement for respecting the human

health spending, productivity losses and labor diversions in Sub-Saharan Africa reaches nearly 5% of th

in 2003 (UNDP). A recent study indicates that women in Sub-Saharan Africa spend 40 billion hours carry

day, and more than 385 million live on less than one dollar a day (UNDP). The poorest 20% of household

water, while in the United Kingdom a 3% threshold is seen as an indicator of hardship (UNDP). In many o

compared with 85% of the richest (UNDP). Water-related diseases such as diarrhea and parasitic infect

children in Ethiopia—and diminish learning potential (UNDP). Diarrhea caused by unclean water is on 10 PIPELINE

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an, safe water. 2.6 billion people in the world—about two-fifths of the world’s population—do not have

More than 6,000 children die every day from diarrhea-related diseases directly relates to lack of access to

ashing every day. Since it’s inception in 1990, Living Water International has completed more than 6,000

ed that half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water-borne diseases.

dequate water or sanitation (WHO). The average distance that women in Africa and Asia walk to collect

eir heads is the equivalent of your airport luggage allowance, approximately 44 pounds (WSSCC, 2004).

mily (husband, mother, five children) to survive each day, she would need to fetch about 10.4 gallons. But 89). The average person in the developing world uses 2.6 gallons of water a day (WaterAid). The average

hing.

re water per capita than any other country in the world, including India and China combined. One flush

washing, cleaning, cooking and drinking (WSSCC). In the past 10 years diarrhea has killed more children

esia twice as many people are dying from diarrhea-related diseases as from HIV/AIDS (UNEP, 2002). The tish Medical Journal). Through its nearly 5,000 water projects in 26 countries, Living Water International

st two in three people lacking access to clean water survive on less than two dollars per day, with one in

, pays up to five times the price for a liter of water than the average American citizen (Stockholm Water the UK, fewer than 1 percent of children die before they reach the age of five (WaterAid). Water-borne

ost the Indian economy 73 million working days a year. A cholera outbreak in Peru in the early 1990s cost

e, 1.5 billion people suffer from parasitic worm infections stemming from human excreta and solid wastes

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hese parasites can lead to malnutrition, anemia and retarded growth, depending upon the severity of the

untries will increase to 3 billion. Water is essential for life; Two-thirds of our body weight and nine-tenths

without water (EPA). Agriculture accounts for 70 percent of total global fresh water use. Ninety percent of

2000-2001). Today, 470 million people live in regions where severe shortages exist [United Nations (UN),

, $17 billion is spent on pet food; in the USA $61 billion is spent on soft drinks; in Europe $105 billion is

ene for all (WSSCC; Vision 21, Water For People, March 2000). On average, women and girls in developing

deaths from diarrhea each year could be prevented through an understanding of basic hygiene (UNICEF). on equivalent in size to that of London and New York combined (UNDP). One gram of feces can contain

exposure to low concentrations of arsenic in drinking water causes painful skin lesions and can result in s, and one in six people had no access to safe water (UNICEF). A child born in Europe or the United States

y 36 per cent of the population can access hygienic sanitation (UNICEF). Ensuring that every person has right to water (UNDP). The massive economic waste associated with water and sanitation deficit due to

he GDP, or some $28.4 billion annually, a figure that exceeds total aid flows and debt relief to the region

ying water to their home. More than 660 million people without sanitation live on less than two dollars a

ds in El Salvador, Jamaica and Nicaragua spend on average more than 10% of their household income on

of the poorest countries only 25% of the poorest households have access to piped water in their homes,

tions cost 443 million school days each year—equivalent to an entire school year for all seven-year-old

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ne of the world’s greatest killers, claiming the lives of five times as many children as HIV/AIDS (UNDP). www.water.cc

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A FORGOTTEN COUNTRY

BY JONATHAN WILES & MELANIE DEWVEALL

The Central African Republic (CAR) is a forgotten country with a forgotten crisis. Since 1996, the country has survived four civil wars, and although the current government has been in place since 2003, the population continues to endure severe consequences from years of ﬁghting. Today, CAR continues to suffer because of the problems of its neighbors. The surrounding nations of Chad, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo are in the midst of long civil conﬂicts, which have pushed hundreds of thousands of refugees and rebel soldiers across CAR’s borders in search of shelter. More than 85 percent of the population lacks access to safe water—a situation that traps the majority of Central Africans in seemingly endless cycles of poverty. With two-thirds of its population living on less than one dollar per day, CAR is ranked the sixth poorest country in the world by the United Nations Development Programme. LWI CAR began work in 2004, helping communities pick up the pieces in the aftermath of the violence, and is still the only non-government entity drilling wells in rural areas of the country. A relationship with each community is the foundation of LWI CAR’s work—it’s much more than punching a hole in the ground. Every interaction—drilling, repairing a hand pump or teaching them about HIV/AIDS—equips and empowers each community to be a part of the solution to its own water, health and poverty problems.

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YANDOUMBE Last year, LWI CAR drilled a well in Yandoumbe, a Pygmy village in the southwest corner of the country, on the outskirts of Bayanga. The team sat down and talked with some of the women to see how things were going in their community. These wives and mothers had noticed a marked improvement in the health of their children since the well was drilled, and were extremely concerned about future pump breakdowns. We haven’t done anything else different, they said. It’s just the water that they’re drinking. They implored the repair team to come back more often to make sure their well was working properly. Jim Hocking and his team explained that they could only return every three months to look after the hand pump, and gave the women detailed instructions on how to maintain the pump, to ensure that breakdowns would be kept to a minimum. None of the women had ever had the opportunity to learn to read, write or count, but they could watch their kids—now healthy— running and playing, and know that without the well, things would be different for them. Most of the children in Bayanga had never been able to go to school because their families had needed them to fetch water every day. This year, for the ﬁrst time, 98 Bayanga children are attending school. The school lies two kilometers down the road from the well. The children drink water from the well at home, but a four-kilometer roundtrip hike is a little too far and too time consuming for a school lunch break. So children must bring water with them, fetch it from a river near the school or go without—but not for long. LWI CAR will drill a second well in Yandoumbe this year, this time on the school grounds.

SAYERE When violent conflict tears communities apart, one of the first things affected is the water supply. During the civil wars, soldiers from every side crisscrossed the country, destroying wells. Much of the work LWI has done in CAR has involved undoing this damage. Thousands of wells remain broken down, even years after the wars have ended. Sayere is a community in central CAR that has tasted and experienced the benefits of clean water, only to have it taken from them. This year, LWI CAR will repair their well, build a latrine and drill a second well to sustain their population. Their efforts, however, were met with some skepticism. The people of Sayere have had many promises made to them and broken. As a result, they are wary to trust anyone. Relationships with communities are crucial to build integrity, trust and confidence. All three are essential for LWI to come alongside a community and find a water solution that works. In some areas of CAR, particularly in the north, armed bandits are terrorizing villages once again. Despite several close calls, the LWI CAR team is continuing to work in these areas, which happen to be some of the most desperate and hard-to-reach communities in the country. Please pray for the people of CAR as they experience constant pressure along every border, and pray for the safety of our team.

Opposite Page: Children from Yandoumbe; Three children playing in Sayere; A man from Sayere stands at the broken well. Top: Women of Yandoumbe. Above: A boy uses a foot pump to draw water from an LWI CAR well in Yandoumbe.

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2007

YEAR IN REVIEW

1.67

MILLION PEOPLE

SERVED THIS YEAR IN 25 COUNTRIES

N SE S EXPE 2007 EXPENSES 82.3% Programs 11.4% Development

We’re constantly reminded that everything we have and everything we are is from God. It is his vision and passion we carry: to provide a cup of clean water in his name to one community, one person at a time. It is only because of him that we have been able to expand and grow every year. In Mexico, LWI expanded its operations greatly in 2007, even sponsoring its first official mission trip to Puebla. We also expanded our work in Haiti and Brazil. After years of searching and trying, we were finally able to establish a permanent program in southern Sudan and a partnership in Darfur to rehabilitate broken, overused wells. We also began a new drilling program in Rwanda and a new pump repair program in Sierra Leone. More than 500 people joined us on mission trips this year, discovering that clean water can change not only the lives of those who receive it, but also those who give it. We sponsored 60 mission trips in 2007, and are planning for 80 in 2008. Since inception, LWI has completed 4,800 water projects that now serve 7.5 million people. Of course, there are still a billion people to reach. That’s why LWI plans to drill 1,000 new wells in 2008, and has launched a massive initiative to repair 1,000 broken or worn-out pumps, restoring clean water to people who have tasted and seen what it can do.

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Financial figures are estimates for fiscal year 2007. Audited financials will be available upon request. Look for a complete financial report in our 2007 annual report.

2007 REVENUE 43.1% Individuals 27.1% Corporations 21.4% Grants 7.1% Churches & Schools 1.1% Other 0.2% In-Kind

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PROJECTS COMPLETED IN 2007 COUNTRY

NEW WELLS

Angola Brazil The Pantanal The Amazon Central African Republic El Salvador Ethiopia Ghana Tema Sunyani Guatemala Haiti North Leogane Honduras India North South Southwest Kenya Nairobi Kisumu North Liberia Mexico North Central South Southeast Namibia Nicaragua Nigeria Panama Peru Romania Rwanda Sierra Leone Sudan Tanzania Uganda Lira Gulu Zambia

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REHABS

BIO-SAND

2007: THE NUMBERS 246

13 45 35 5

231 4

53 4 15

1 5 2

67 8 7

28 33 31 1

4 19

96 8 2 44

20 13 5 6 26 13 29 1 31 19 29

29 8 7

340

NEW WELLS COMPLETED 656 REHABS COMPLETED 457 BIO-SAND FILTERS INSTALLED 800

MISSION TRIPS 60

NUMBER OF PEOPLE TRAINED IN: 204

SHALLOW WELL DRILLING 72 PUMP REPAIR 37 HEALTH & HYGIENE EDUCATION 225

PEOPLE SERVED

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