2023β2025 Mission Grant #13
Water and the Word
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya β $80,000
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About This Mission Grant
Students in schools and orphanages sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya (ELCK) lack clean water and regular access to pastoral care. Water and the Word, based in Thermopolis, Wyoming, works with the ELCK to improve water systems for the schools. After evaluating a schoolβs needs, Water and the Word installs water harvesting equipment (rain gutters and tanks), locally sourced filters, hand wash stations, and clean water storage systems. Students and staff are taught about personal hygiene, handwashing, and the importance of drinking only clean water.Β
After installation, an ELCK pastor (trained in water equipment) visits the schools every 3β4 months to ensure that the water system is working, visits with the children, and provides needed pastoral care.Β
This grant will provide clean water and cover travel expenses for pastoral care to students in 12 additional schools and orphanages in Kenya.Β
Mission Grant Resources
featured July 2024
Bulletin Insert (half page insert, 2 per page)
Large Print Resources for Grant #13
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Before water system installation by Water and the Word, these girls are hauling water on their backs to their school.
More Mission Grant Photos
Before water system installation by Water and the Word, this child is drinking dirty water from a cement stock tank.
One of the water filters Water and the Word provides to schools. Each school gets 2β4 filters, depending on their student population.
A water tank being put into place by hand.
At each school, students are expected to help dig the trenches if they
require a new water pipe for their improved water system.
Dirty water going into the top of one of the filters from Water and the Word.
Happy students saying "Thank you, LWML" for the clean water and pastoral care!
