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How Low Can You Go...
Digging 1000 Feet For Something More
Precious Than Gold- Water!
Kibera, near Nairobi, is Kenya's largest
slum and has one of the nation's greatest needs of clean water. This
lifesaving resource is not accessible even to the area's hospitals-
where people go to be treated for water-borne diseases such as malaria,
typhoid and cholera.
To make a difference in this impoverished
community, Brighton has partnered with charity: water to build a
freshwater well to supply clean water to a hospital and its surrounding
population. In Kibera, the aquifers are much farther underground than
they are elsewhere, so the well will be 1000 ft. deep - equal to the
height of a 100-story building or the length of over 3 football fields!
Living Water, International - the non-profit
company that is drilling the well - specializes in drilling high-capacity
wells in rural areas. To date, they have completed nearly 6,000 water
projects, providing clean water to nearly 8 million people.
Our Kibera project has shown that "it takes
a village" is a true statement when it comes to building a well. By
combining vision, passion, donations and technological support, we can
all make the dream of providing clean water for everyone a reality.
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