H2O for Life Project

Co-workers Julie, Bob and I in our H2O for Life t-shirts.

Every year at school we do a service project, in addition to collecting for the food shelf. We're a small school with an attendance area that has been hard hit by the economy, but still the families are on board for helping others, both locally and in the world. Our fundraising activities were t-shirt sales, and a coin drive.

This year's project was to collect $2000 to dig a well for Chepkemel school in the town of Kericho, Kenya, Africa. Yesterday we achieved that goal plus!
The well helps to ensure that children have a safe source of drinking water, and the location of the well at their school is intentional. Many children have to spend a large part of their day walking quite far to fetch water from various sources - pools, rivers, streams. So they don't always have time to attend school. The well at the school helps them combine both activities. The middle school participated last year, and Mark Domschot, Alexandria native, traveled to Africa last summer to the site of their well project.