Health Centers:
Most Health centers in rural settings lack accessibility to water on-site and as a result, the centers are unable to provide adequate healthcare services to the locals. For example, mothers and their new babies having to wait for hours after giving birth before they are cleaned. In some cases, we have witnessed patients’ family members having to walk long distances to retrieve clean water for the patient’s use.
Sychar Springs International’s solar wells allow immediate access to clean water for both staff and patients’ use as well as to maintain a safe and sanitary environment.
Schools:
Walking long distances to fetch water consumes students’ time away from studying and the process exposes students to physical threats like sexual assault, human trafficking and child sacrifices as they have to walk long distances alone.
Availability of clean water in schools allows students to focus on academics. Sychar Springs is providing clean water collected from our solar wells to thousands of students in Ugandan rural schools.
Community Empowerment:
An average Ugandan family lives on about two dollars a day. It can be even less in villages where they primarily rely on agriculture for survival, especially in dry seasons when there is a water shortage.
Our wells provide the community with the ability to irrigate their crops and water their livestock regardless of the season. This improves their quality of life as families are able to self-sustain.
Food Drives:
During the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, many families struggled to meet basic food needs. In some of the communities where we planted wells, we had the opportunity to reach out to over 500 families with a basket of food and house supplies.
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Food Drive
Families had been under lockdown for about six months. Businesses closed and people's movement restricted. We had just drilled two wells before and during the pandemic in this community and the urgent need was food and sanitary supplies. Single mother-headed families suffered most as their teenage girls being out of schools where it was safer had been stack home and with nothing to feed them. Being unable to work left these young people with no option but to engage a lot in sexual offers with old and “wealthy” men for food favors.
With financial partners like you, we are enabled to make special community outreach where we drill wells and meet some basic family needs such as food and water.
With Solar wells, we not only provide clean water, reduce chances of young people being taken advantage of, we most importantly share the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ so that they know the Gospel is beyond words.
(Jonah S. / Exec. Director)
