Water and agriculture

Clean water has an enormous impact on the welfare of the whole surroundings. When GAiN staff met the Tanzanian pastor Jeremiah he showed with pride his garden and shed with 1100 chickens.
The success of this is only possible thanks to the well that was drilled by GAiN Water for Life.
His garden and chicken shed  in the village of Mkwajuni  are flourishing. With the proceeds he can provide for his family but also help those of his church members, even in the dry season.
“We were in a desert before this well,” Jeremiah expresses. “We had no water source in this village nor in the village that was closest to us. Instead we had to walk to ditches to retrieve some sort of water.” With the remaining proceeds, he also helped support a new church he had planted in a
village ten kilometers away where GAiN had drilled a water well.

GAiN’s impact has gone beyond providing clean water. It is also helping local people be
effective, resourceful and successful among other leaders within their own communities.

At Mtama Secondary, located in a village just a few kilometers from Jeremiah’s garden, were 530 students (some of which were boarders at the school) that initiated a similar idea. By using the excess water from the well, the students built a garden that allowed them to harvest vegetables, cook them and eat them as part of their daily meals. Not only had this well
brought health to the children and the community, but it had brought nourishment and
sustenance through food.

One visiting colleague notes: “More leaders are starting to catch the vision for how clean water can help with their economy. The deep-capped wells are really being utilized. Not only is each well constantly pumping clean water for thousands of people, but it is creating sustainable and profitable solutions for the local people.”