Subject: For review - Join Peter in creating a legacy

 

Dear Friend,


We just completed the major construction for rainwater catchment tanks #1 and #2 in Matsakha, Kenya. They are already creating an impact on the community.

“For me this is a legacy, when I leave this school I will leave behind 75,000 litres of water safely collected, stored and treated in the water tanks, I am a happy and lucky head teacher.“

– Peter Kibet, Matsakha Primary School

Over the last ten months, you joined Peter in building a new legacy. A legacy of clean hands and clean water. A legacy of improved tools and new jobs. A legacy built using better bricks and investment in the villages and the people of Matsakha. Thank you for starting this great work.


Developing a Water Security program that will provide the children and teachers at Matsakha Primary School with life-changing access to water did not happen overnight. The path to this program was built in Matsakha one success at a time.

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10 months after their training, our community partner, Matsakha Development Group (MDG) has produced and sold 4000 liters of soap (over 1,000 gallons). You can find Meta in local schools, restaurants, homes, and at handwashing stations at the local market. Even better, soap-making is now a profitable business. Every worker gets paid, and they invest some of that income into their own shared table-banking account for their community and their future.

The rainwater catchment tanks that Peter is so proud of (and you should be too), are made using curved Interlocking Stabilized Soil Bricks (ISSB). With the soap successfully running, we purchased and trained MDG to use two new ISSB presses. Pressed bricks don’t need fire to set. They are made mostly from sifted soil and a stabilizer like cement. They are made on-site. They are stronger than fired bricks. They need less mortar. And they look better. We love them (can you tell?). MDG has already made and been paid for more than 24,000 bricks.

rainwater catchment tank

All of the MDG bricks made so far are curved bricks and they will form the foundation for 1,250,000 liters of water security in Matsakha. That security is built using our Kenyan- government-approved rainwater catchment tanks. 46 more tanks, each able to hold 25,000 liters of water are planned for at least 13 schools in the area. Thanks to you, 6,000 children won’t have to walk for water or miss school waiting to use it.

 

This is the legacy you and Peter are building.

 

Our mission is simple: transform villages and the lives of people living in them with the improved ideas and better tools we have spent ten years building. And do it with our most important resource – people working together.


Last week we started work in Munamoomba, Zambia. Next month we will start the same work in Kambiri, Kenya. By investing in these communities in the same way you invested in Matsakha, you will build a lasting legacy village by village, year by year.

 

FRIENDLY WATER FOR THE WORLD


We are on a mission to transform the villages of the world


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