Water Supply For Children and Their Families

Dear Friend,

Greetings from ALEY and thank you very much for your support to our initiative providing water supply for children and their families. Water is life and the access to water is becoming difficult as the years go on. The need to devise innovative water supply for poor communities is central to long-term water sustainability. Together with a local partner we are promoting water catchment and storage facilities using available materials and in a cheap and durable manner. One of the methods is the use of what we call ferrocement technology or using iron and concrete to form containers and catchment. We were able to design one unit as model during this reporting period and we hope that communities will adopt this. Thank you very much for your continuing support.

Very sincerely yours,

Jed Christian

Dear Friend,

Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our initiative providing much-needed water for children and their families. They said that the quarrel this century will be caused by the lack of water for drinking and for general use. Aquifers are drying-up and the shortage of water is felt everywhere. Our country is tropical and we have a lot of rainwater that can be conserved for use in the household. We are fortunate to be trained on the gathering of water using large tanks made of iron and concrete and thanks to a local donor we are able to build a unit in one village here. In order for the neighbors not to quarrel we asked them to forge an agreement for the use of the water and for the maintenance of the system. We will closely monitor this as the system operates and provide support when needed. Again, thank you so much for your generous suipport.

Very sincerely yours,

Jed Christian