This past year at Osceola High School (WI), Emily Fox and I (Brooke Bents), partnered up to develop a service-learning project contributing to ending the global water crisis. A new club introduced to the school last year is called “Why Wait?”, which is focused on the important question: why wait to change the world? Emily […]
Birijaku Primary School is located in a very needy part of West Nile in Koboko, Uganda. BEFORE: The school has just over 1,500 students and no water! This community is made up of locals and refugees from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The only current water source is rain, which the […]
Our implementing partner, Freshwater Project International, is excited to report a successful installation of the water point at Malama Primary School in Malawi! The school originally had NO clean water source and students had to walk long distances to fetch water from various unsafe water sources throughout the community, often waiting in long lines for […]
Thank you for bringing safe water to Gombe School! Located in Uganda’s Central region in Wakiso district, Gombe Community Polytechnic School is home to a borehole well that currently provides drinking water to 500 people. Before: For almost an entire year the water produced by this well has been brown in color and unsafe to […]
*open to Minnesota students ONLY Learn, engage, and advocate! Design a poster, no larger than 9×12, about how or why all Minnesotans should conserve and protect our drinking water. Safe drinking water is everyone’s responsibility. It’s up to all of us to keep it clean and safe, now and for the future. Prizes FIRST PLACE WINNERS in […]
We were fortunate enough to spend part of our day on Halloween at Protolabs as they wrapped up their fundraiser for a water project at the Busia Primary School in Uganda. The school has a population of 1,025 students and this area has a high population of refugees, both South Sudanese and Congolese. To raise […]
Quick update on the project at Githunguchu Primary School in Kenya. Construction of the new rainwater catchment tank is almost complete. Once the final touches are put on the tank and the gutter system is installed we will share a final report. Thanks to the following for supporting this project! Bank Street School for Children, […]
For many people, turning on the tap or flushing the toilet is something we take for granted. But a report released Monday, called “Closing the Water Access Gap in the United States,” shows that more than 2 million Americans live without these conveniences and that Native Americans are more likely to have trouble accessing water […]
St. Joseph Catholic School in Arlington, TX had their annual Water Walk! Funds raised will support a water and sanitation project for the Good Samaritan School in Uganda. We captured a few of their Tweets as they shared: A little rain and cold will not stop these Knights from serving others! Still going! You can […]
The last couple of days H2O for Life was attending the Minnesota Middle School Association Conference. We might be a little bias, but our favorite presentation at the conference was by Anne Freese and John Wabbe of Twin Oaks Middle School. They gave a great talk about the value that service-learning projects bring to their […]