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Protolabs Celebrates Halloween by Building a Well and Their Community

Posted by Mitchell LeGrand on November 6, 2019

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 […]

Clean Drinking Water Poster Contest

Posted by Christy Andacht on November 5, 2019

*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 […]

Ugandan Well Rehab Successful

Posted by Steve Hall on October 31, 2019

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 […]

Malama School Borehole

Posted by Steve Hall on October 28, 2019

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 […]

Borehole Drilled for Ugandan School

Posted by Steve Hall on October 23, 2019

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 […]

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