Clean, fresh water is a source of life for villages. We strive to help create lasting sources of clean water to communities. We plan to purchase mobile water-well drilling rigs similar to the one pictured for the benefit and use of communities during evangelistic meetings and crusades. The drilling rigs will be used to reach out to the communities and serve as a tool to connect with people, to open their hearts to hearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The lack of safe water for human use is one of the greatest problems affecting the health of children and adults throughout Uganda, in particular Northern Uganda where there has been an increase in water-borne illnesses according to the medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-Holland. Some 5.4 million children in Uganda, especially those who have been displaced by conflict in the north, do not have access to safe drinking water, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). It has been nearly two decades since Uganda began the long road to recovery following many years of economic chaos and civil unrest. While strong growth caused poverty to decline steadily in the 1990s, the benefits of that growth were not equitably distributed across the population, with troubling regional disparities, especially for Ugandans in the north of the country, which has been plagued by conflict for nearly 20 years. Contaminated water results in intestinal infections that increase malnutrition and contribute to the severity of other illnesses. Many communities have been using unsafe water from open wells, ponds, streams and rivers.

• Only 52% of the population has clean water.
• The lack of clean water kills almost 4,500 children per day; it’s the world’s 2nd leading killer of children under the age of five.
• Everyday in Africa, women and girls especially, walk as many as six miles to fetch water.
• Rapid urbanization is leading to increased pressure on water resources.
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in camps in the northern district of Lira were living on less than three liters of water per person per day; the internationally acceptable standards are 15 liters per person per day.

In 2002, the Uganda life expectancy rate is 39.6 year, the infant mortality rate is 127 per 1000 births, and the child (under age five) mortality rate is 173 per 1000 live births. In the same year, the U.S. rates were 77.2, 7 in 1000, and 10 in 1000, respectively. Sources: Unicef, WHO, UNESCO