Impacting Communities During COVID
For over a decade, Global Aid Network (GAiN) has been involved in providing deep-capped water wells to rural villages in countries such as Benin, Togo and Tanzania. Along with…
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Encouraged and Not Forgotten
Photo of one of the pastors who received food through GAiN's COVID response
Over the last six months, food insecurity has become an even greater concern in developing…
Faithful Through a Crisis
“The COVID-19 crisis has been very tough for us,” Pastor Pascal, leader of the Assemblies of God church in Gbegbessa, Benin, shared. “We have lacked food and we have…
Supporting Rural Clinics During COVID
In May of this year, our Water for Life Initiative (WFLI) teams completed the first of three rounds of our COVID response (as of today, our teams have completed…
Coronavirus + WASH
Current State of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa
With the growing impact of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) globally, there are heightened concerns about the fragile state of health and hygiene…
Global Aid Network (GAiN) Canada's Response to COVID-19
Earlier this week, WHO declared COVD-19 a pandemic. We recognize that we are living in a time of anxiety and stress, and wanted to provide an update…
The Economic and Social Hub
Water is a hot commodity in the village of Nangumbu B in southern Tanzania. Recently, Global Aid Network (GAiN) provided a deep-capped water well to this community and the…
Proud of Their Water
In Benin, when visitors come to your village, you welcome them by offering a drink of water. The village of Wession Camp Peulh in Northern Benin had a problem…
More Life, Joy and Vigour
After spending a week in Benin on a LIFE Team Vision Trip with Global Aid Network (GAiN), Rachel Botma had visited enough villages to see the contrast between communities…
The Time and Health for Education
The GAiN Tanzania team recently drilled a well in the village of Liugulu on the grounds of a secondary school where a number of students live during the school…
A Multiplying of Blessings
The village of Okafou lies in a beautiful, remote region of central Togo.
The people of this 578 population village, and students from the adjacent school, used to…
Joy Below The Surface
When Wayne and his family decided that they wanted to support some charities, they were looking for organizations that would provide the most value for their money. They ended…
A Social Place
Women love to talk, that is a universally shared characteristic of women in community. It is certainly true of the women in the village of Chipunda in southern Tanzania.…
Dance for Joy, Water and Jesus
The women in Barou (Badekparou), Benin used to have to walk upwards of 10km to fetch dirty water from rivers and swamps and then carry the heavy jugs back…
Working Together for Gender Equality
“The gender training has had a huge impact on our households,” one woman from the village of Fignonhou, Benin, told us after we had conducted a gender sensitivity training…
Water Gives Lift to Chilaile's Local Economy
Brick making is a significant source of income for the people in Southern Tanzania as the soil is strong.
The process of making bricks involves creating a pit…
World Water Day: Time for Babies
To see the health a village, just look at the health of its children.
In African society, the lack of clean water places a large burden on women…
Celebrating 1000 Wells in Benin
GAiN’s Water for Life Initiative has reached a new milestone – providing 1000 communities with access to safe water in Benin! This translates to approximately 1 million people who…
Celebrating True Wellness
The village of Kouorou, Benin suffered from a lack of water, depending on their only water source – the swamp. The contaminated water from the swamp caused frequent sickness,…
Transformation in Windjinnawa
Before receiving a deep-capped well, the villagers of Windjinnawa, Benin knew that the only water available to them was unsafe and could cause them to contract deadly diseases. Still,…
Billions around the world lack safe water, proper sanitation facilities, reveals UN report
12 July 2017 – Some three in ten people around the world lack access to safe and readily available water at home, and almost six in ten to safely…
Showing Love Through Sport
“Sport draws people together and creates community. It’s really neat how just one single soccer ball and an open field can bring people together. You can have a relationship…
Water is Life
Abandoning all other activities, Elizabeth left her village of Loukintowin to search for water. Her only chance of finding water was the nearby village five kilometers away.
“Water…
#WorldWaterDay
Did you have a glass of water today? Was it safe to drink?
For Elizabeth, the source of water she depended on was filthy and parasite-ridden. Yet, she…
Ceremonies to Celebrate New Wells
In Africa, nothing commemorates an important event like a ceremony. And after the implementation of a water well, a celebration is very much in order.
We designed a…
Transformation in Tanzania
As our team travels from village to village, a common theme we hear is that we are making history. The village leaders say that the problem of disease and…
Bringing True Life
In a village where you have to put chemicals into dirty water to make it drinkable because cleaner water is 15 kilometres away, it is no surprise that providing…
Building Sustainable Futures
While done with good intentions, there have been water systems set up for developing countries that fail to sustain themselves – sometimes breaking down just a few years later,…
Witnessing Word and Deed Work Together
“I think I had a romanticized idea of what the trip was going to be like,” Kyra admitted about the LIFE Team to Benin that she participated…
Giving a Gift to Make a Difference
This Christmas, give a gift of meaning that can change a life.
Written by Sarah Casimong -
As the holidays approach and Christmas displays go…