Media Release
GAiN Canada provides disease-free water to 1 million people
Global Aid Network (GAiN) Canada celebrates a significant milestone with their Water for Life Initiative (WFLI). 1,000 deep-capped water wells have been provided to approximately one million people.
Women and children are no longer carrying water over extremely long distances, children are attending school, the cycle of sickness and death is being broken, hope is being restored, and economic activity is being stimulated. With every well, villagers are also receiving additional opportunities to develop their community; opportunities such as borehole committee training, hygiene and sanitation training, gender sensitivity training, family health teams and medical and dental clinics.
In 2003, GAiN’s WFLI began as a small well-drilling project in the villages of southern China and has since grown to include a variety of nations where clean water sources are few, including Benin, Southern Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Thailand and Ethiopia. One million people have been literally transformed by the provision of fresh pure water.
The Prime Minister of Tanzania announced that GAiN had increased the number of wells in the Lindi region by 40 per cent and then shared “I don’t know why you ever chose Lindi, but we are glad you are here because we are in desperate need of water”. In Benin, local officials stated that 1 in 32 people have clean water because of GAiN’s WFLI.
“It is tremendous that each well is constantly pumping clean water for thousands of people, but the well does so much more. It literally transforms a village. The well creates an environment where the village and the villagers can progress economically. They have better health and more time to work their fields and even start new small businesses,” shares Dennis Fierbach, GAiN’s Director for Water Strategies.
While recognizing this momentous occasion, GAiN knows that there are still 750 million people without access to clean water. As a result, GAiN is looking to raise awareness and funds toward the next million. The first step toward this vision is to focus on another 220 water wells this year, which is another 220,000 people with disease-free water.
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Headquartered in Langley, BC, GAiN is a worldwide humanitarian relief and development non-profit organization dedicated to demonstrating God’s love, in word and deed, to hurting and needy people around the world.
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