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 GAiN’s experience drilling water wells in Benin and Sudan is opening doors to provide safe, clean water in another African country – Tanzania. The alarming UN fact, “a child dies every 8 seconds as a result of water borne disease” still includes countries like this. The under age five mortality rate for Tanzania has been improved with recent international efforts to improve water sources, but there is much work that remains. A government report in 2006 explains that the challenge in water provision is on how to improve equitable access especially in rural areas. The country is vast and the majority of the population lives in these rural areas, where water is often drawn from open sources such as ponds. The overall vision of the Tanzanian government is to make drinking water available within 400 meters of all households by 2017, but various factors have made timelines for this goal problematic in the past. The quality of open water sources is poor, and 38% of the population is not accessing water
from improved water sources. People are at very high risk of contracting diseases from drinking water or even having contact with it.
In this backdrop of desperate need of reliable, clean water, GAiN currently has a signed Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Tanzania to begin a water well drilling project, and we are in the process of shipping 2 drilling rigs and laying the foundation to begin to bring life-transforming water to these needy people by May 2008. GAiN will be working with the Tanzanian Ministry of Water and Livestock Development, who will conduct water quality testing and seismic studies to ensure the best locations for each well to be drilled; in most cases, 60-70 meters below the surface. The government of Tanzania is providing a 5 ton
truck and a 4x4 pickup to tow the drilling rig and our well drilling crew from village to village. GAiN has agreed to fund the drilling of the water wells and provides the management and crew for the project. Drilling wells will start in the Lindi region, a coastal area with one of the most dire needs for clean water due to contamination by salt water.
 As is the case in all countries where GAiN has water well drilling projects, once clean water is provided, the people are able to regain their health. Better health results in more productive time in the fields. The increased water supply also provides water for drip irrigation, resulting in increased field production yields. The surplus crop can be sold to local markets providing much needed income to the village, eventually leading to financial independence. The cycle of sickness, suffering and death that contaminated drinking water has caused for generations will be broken! Women and children will no longer be required to spend hours each day searching for and carrying water over extremely long distances. UN studies have found that the closer girls live to a water source, the more often they attend school. In Tanzania, when girls live within 15 minutes from a water source, their school attendance is 12 per cent higher. As part of our desire to help people holistically, GAiN will also bring ALERT medical personnel on trips to the villages to offer basic medical treatment to people.
Will you partner with us to provide pure, clean water, transform lives and demonstrate God’s love to the needy people of Tanzania?
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