Marsabit Generate! Water Harvesting and Harnessing

Africa Kenya WASH

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Marsabit Generate!: Water Harvesting and Harnessing

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AFRICA:

Marsabit Generate!: Water Harvesting and Harnessing

Anglican Aid is partnering with the Diocese of Marsabit, Kenya, to support communities in harvesting and harnessing water in this drought-prone region.

Marsabit is frequently ravaged by droughts, famines, and more often, violent clashes between tribes. Many people are also suffering due to a lack of clean water for drinking, cooking, and irrigation. The changing climate has meant the rainy season now brings abnormally high levels of rainfall. But most locals don’t have the infrastructure to harvest and store rainwater for sustenance during the long dry months.

Working through the local church, the “Generate!” project aims to address these problems.

By constructing important infrastructure like gutters, rainwater tanks, and dams for small-scale irrigation, locals will be able to harvest rainwater for drinking, sanitation, and crops for family consumption or to sell as additional income. The project also provides beneficiaries with seedlings for fruit trees. This helps diversify their crops and combat the disastrous effects of deforestation and land degradation.

The Generate project aims to select beneficiaries from three groups:

Faithful pastors, evangelists and emerging leaders, most of whom receive little or no income from their ministry
Vulnerable people: persecuted believers from Muslim backgrounds, widows, orphans, and internally displaced people
Local schools

Your support is impacting people like Guyo, a young evangelist serving in youth and school ministries.

“The project will change completely my life. As I was doing some small farming, but I was missing water for irrigation. Now I get this pond it will completely help me.”