Masoila Baptist Primary School
Project Snapshot
Country: Sierra Leone
GPS Coordinates:
Latitude 8.604867
Longitude -13.185300
Impact:
Total Served: 400
Status: Completed (?)
Completion Date (or estimate): 02/22/2010
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the school but never came to the assistance of the school.
The community was using an open well for their water source. Sicknesses encountered from the water source were dysentery, typhoid and malaria. Most people in the community earn a living through selling baked goods, cooked rice, petty trading and teaching.
The community helped out with the project by providing security and food. When the project was complete, the community established a water committee and a point person to be the
caretaker of the well.
Testimony from a community member: Mohamed Kamara, 31 year old head teacher spoke with the team about the water needs for his school and community. “I find the new hand pump and rehab good. We are enjoying the water. When the pump broke, the children were experiencing sickness”.
The students and community members gathered with the team to pray before they began the work each day. During the hygiene training, the gospel is woven into the lessons. Bible storying and songs were sung during the lessons. The gospel was presented at the dedication.
On the day of the pump installation, the students were being tested. The team didn’t want to make them wait ofr the pump installation so we came back to do the hygiene. Topics that were covered were the three legged stool, keeping your body clean and the wordless book. LWI Sierra Leone
partners with UNICEF and taught 43 fifth and sixth grade girls about menstrual hygiene.
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Country Details
Sierra Leone
- Population: 9.7 Million
- Lacking clean water: 47%
- Below poverty line: 70%
- Climate: Tropical; hot, humid; summer rainy season; winter dry season
- Languages: English, Mende, Temne, Krio
- Ethnic Groups: 20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10%
- Life Expectancy: 48 years
- Infant Mortality Rate: 155 deaths per 1000 live births
Partner Profile
Living Water International
Nearly 20 years ago, we set out to help the church in North America be the hands and feet of Jesus by serving the poorest of the poor. 600 million people in the world live on less than $2 a day. 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water.
For all practical purposes, these statistics refer to the same people; around the world, communities are trapped in debilitating poverty because they constantly suffer from water-related diseases and parasites, and/or because they spend long stretches of their time carrying water over long distances.
In response to this need, we implement participatory, community-based water solutions in developing countries. Since we started, we’ve completed water projects for 7,000 communities in 26 countries.
It all began in 1990, when a group from Houston, Texas traveled to Kenya and saw the desperate need for clean drinking water. They returned to Houston and founded a 501(c)3 non-profit. The fledgling organization equipped and trained a team of Kenyan drillers, and LWI Kenya began operations the next year under the direction of a national board.
That pattern continues today; we train, consult, and equip local people to implement solutions in their own countries.
Remembering the life-changing nature of that first trip in 1990, we also lead hundreds of volunteers on mission trips each year, working with local communities, under the leadership of nationals, to implement water projects. It’s hard to know which lives are changed more—those “serving” or those “being served.”
Our training programs in shallow well drilling, pump repair, and hygiene education have equipped thousands of volunteers and professionals in the basics of integrated water solutions since 1997.
