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      • “Like Nehemiah – building with one hand and guarding with the other”
         
      • African community seemed to have it all
         
      • Before and after in a Nigerian village
         
      • Buying drinking water drains community resources
         
      • Canadian donor visits Lifewater projects in Kenya
         
      • Catchment and storage systems capitalize on Africa’s rainy seasons
         
      • Community relied on dangerous brown-colored creek
         
      • Community's surroundings both a benefit and a burden
         
      • Despite existing water well, Haitian students constantly thirsty
         
      • Dirty water sending schoolchildren to hospital
         
      • Disabled woman thankful for rainwater harvesting/storage system
         
      • Dramatically improving people's lives
         
      • Drilling team leader experiences water shortage first-hand
         
      • Empowering Kenyan women to drill for safe water
         
      • Failing wells leave villagers desperate for water
         
      • Hand-powered pumps a welcome alternative
         
      • Hosea Apeh - Leader of Lifewater Nigeria
         
      • Imagine walking for water – and risking being kidnapped – every day
         
      • Liberian town mourns children who died from bad water
         
      • Lifewater donors provide safe water to meet Muslim community's urgent needs
         
      • Lifewater’s well-drilling and “maintenance culture” applauded
         
      • Little schoolchildren sometimes forced to drink from ditches
         
      • Meet Yohanna - a Lifewater Well Caretaker
         
      • Repaired hand pump "a gift of love"
         
      • Repaired well brings safe water – and sound sleep!
         
      • Risking danger and humiliation to gather water
         
      • School needed functioning well to combat COVID-19
         
      • School principal in Kenya writes to us
         
      • Village’s hand-dug well an invitation to parasites
         
      • Villagers forced to drink rust-tainted water
         
      • Well Caretaker's death sparks crisis
         
      • Wells an incentive to settle community differences
         
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    • News Release - Nov. 8, 2023
       
    • News Release - Nov. 15, 2022
       
    • News Release - Nov. 9, 2021
       
    • Magazine Release - Mar-Apr, 2021
       
    • News Release - Mar. 16, 2021
       
    • News Release - Nov. 19, 2020
       
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    • External Water-Related Links
       
      • Gravity Village Water Supply in Sierra Leone
         
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      • Spring Protection in Uganda
         
      • Using the "Sludger Technique" for wells in Nepal
         
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    • Aasha & Alessia Sarta, and Marcus & Adrianna Silva
       
    • Adam Kruger and Gabriella Fischer
       
    • Anne Degrace and Phillip Jackson
       
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    • Bob Jarrett
       
    • Courtney Bushell
       
    • Dominic Metzger-Point
       
    • Don Bannerman
       
    • Dubem Nnadi and Ze Beckta
       
    • Elderly man forgoes groceries to offer safe water
       
    • Franz Rempel
       
    • Grade 2 Students at Dr. Roberta Bondar School
       
    • Janet and Stan Roy
       
    • Karl VanHeyst and Dr. Karen Bailey
       
    • Lisa and Ross Cossar
       
    • Matt and Danelli Scott
       
    • Matthew ("MisterHomes")
       
    • Nora Starks and Bob Massey
       
    • “Pie-ing” his teacher a reward for Calgary boy who funded a well in Haiti
       
    • Saving Lives by Cleaning and Recycling Golf Balls
       
    • Susan and Severin Hoch
       
    • The Hoevenaars family
       
    • Tim Walton and Phil Seel
       
    • Water of Life Project - Truro, Nova Scotia
       
    • Willie and George Walker
       
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