Kalesi Primary School and the surrounding community express their gratitude to Lifewater Canada for the donation of a 10,000-litre water tank and handwashing station. We appreciate your contribution to a healthy school environment.

Festus Mutua, Community Leader

Kalesi Primary School in Nuu, Mwingi central in Kenya's Kitui County, has 370 students. Their only water source is rain, but due to a lack of rainwater harvesting and storage capacity, they were often dehydrated, thirsty, and vulnerable to diseases because they could not practice appropriate hygiene. This threatened their academic performance.

Lifewater Canada donors generously provided a rainwater catchment system which includes a large 10,000-litre storage tank and hand-washing station. This gave the school lots of capacity to harvest enough water when it rains to meet everyone's needs during dry seasons.

Julius Muli, a community member whose children study at Kalesi Primary, was happy to learn the school can harvest and store water for use when the rains stop. “I feel blessed by the project,” he says.