We, the Mutula Primary School community, thank you for your thoughtful gesture. The rainwater catchment system and the hand-washing station are setting our students free from poor health and diseases caused by consumption of unsafe water. Thank you and may God bless you to continue being a blessing.

Daniel Nzuka, Headteacher, Mutula Primary School

Mutulu Primary School in Nuu, Mwingi Central in Kenya's Kitui County, has 174 students. All of them are reliant on rain to meet their water needs. Because the school lacked harvesting and storage capacity, it could never gather and retain enough water during the rainy season to last throughout the dry season. As a result, the students had long resigned themselves to long days without even a drop of water to drink or for personal hygiene.

But recently, Lifewater Canada donors provided a rainwater catchment system which includes a large 10,000-litre storage tank and hand-washing station. The system is enabling students and staff at Mutulu Primary to have water year-round.

Headteacher Daniel Nzuka says the system could not have come at a better time because the region is experiencing an even longer drought season: “Scarcity or lack of water drains the life out of people while sufficient water brings it back. The school community is more alive than ever."