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New Well & Celebration
New Well & Celebration
Old Water Source
Old Water Source
Installing the Hand Pump
Installing the Hand Pump
Health & Hygiene Workshop
Health & Hygiene Workshop
The People of Boys Town Junction, Liberia, thank
Fred & Alice Cramer (Slate River, ON)

For helping them get safe drinking water
Latitude: 6.20331 Longitude: -10.54733
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A message from the community

Dear Lifewater & Sponsor,

We the leaders and members of Boys Town Junction, appreciate you for providing our community with safe drinking water.

Sincerely yours,

James Borboo, Community Chair

 

Some community details (provided by our in-country partners)

This populated community is located along the Marshall highway in the lower Margibi County. It is just about a minutes drive from the Boy's Town junction, bending on the first road on your right.

The community is very large, population with 1,000 children, women and men. Most of the houses are built, but more are rising all the time!

The community is very sandy and level... like a desert! And like a desert, there was no safe drining water!

The community has been in dying need of safe drinking water for a long, long time. The only source of water is nearby creeks and swamps, which are not safe for drinking. They have open dug wells but the water is bado and normally goes dry during the hot season. When there is water, it carries bado smell.

Before the Health & Hygiene team came, the people were living in ingnorance, puting themselves and their little ones at risk. The people who attended the Health & Hygiene workshop on February 25,2018 received information and instruction to pass on to others. The H&H team educated them patiently, and the people were eager to learn new things and excited to put these new hygiene ideas into practice.

With this new well and new information acquired about good health, the people will have a better chance of living a long and healthier life. 

This well was drilled as part of a cooperative NGO initiative to provide safe drinking water to all Liberian's. Thanks to ''The Last Well Inc.'' for their coordination and support!

 

Well Details

Project Completed: 2018-03-10 Well Depth: 55 ft.
Depth of Water: 15.00 ft. Casing Diameter: 4.00 in.
Screen Length: 15.00 ft. Developed By: Electric Pump
Development Time: 3.00 hrs. Well Yield: 6.00 gpm
Disinfection: 24.00 hrs. Handpump: Afridev
Water Colour: Clear Water Odour: None
Turbidity: Clear Taste: Good
Nitrate: 0.000 mg/L Bacti Test: Negative
Iron: 0.000 mg/L pH: 7.000




Every $1 you give provides a child with safe water for a year!


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