Water for Tanzania Mission Kit
Get a FREE Missions Moment Leader Guide with five daily activities to make it easy to bring Water For Tanzania to your VBS! You'll get videos, activities, and plenty of information to learn more about providing sustainable water in East Africa and other communities.
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Water for Tanzania Kickstarter Pack
In this physical kit, you will find information about our program, our partners, as well as some fun extras to get you excited to start fundraising. Includes brochure, sticker sheet, bucket sticker, goal chart poster, and wristband.
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Kids are getting sick.
Kids in rural Tanzania typically get their water from hand-dug wells in river beds. This water source is shared with animals and used for bathing, cleaning and drinking. It's full of mud, bacteria and parasites, causing severe illnesses and even death.
Kids are missing school
Children and women are usually assigned to collect water, spending about 25% of their day walking to and from a hand-dug well. They carry buckets up to 50 lbs for miles and miles. Kids often miss out on time learning at school because they are collecting water, preventing them from the very education that can provide hope for their communities.
Water & Hygiene Changes Everything
Water alone is not enough. Lack of education in WASH (water and sanitation hygiene) contributes to about 700,000 child deaths every year, mainly in developing countries. The lack of proper sanitation and hand washing stations can prevent students from attending school and can spread sickness.
2.1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe water at home (WHO)
Women and children in the developing world walk an average of 3.7 miles (6km) per day to collect water (USAID)
Nearly 570 million children lack access to basic drinking water at school (UNICEF)
Complete 10 new solar-powered wells
$15,000 = 1 New Solar Powered Well
For $15,000, the Mighty Men Drillers can drill a solar powered well that provides clean water to a village of an average of 1,000 people. Your contribution can help make that goal a reality, providing thousands of children with safe drinking water and the opportunity to get an education.
In 2019, VBS programs at churches around the country joined together to raise over $132,000 to impact more than 12,000 people in Tanzania.
We're in This Together
To help Empowering Lives International meet their goals for 2024, Concordia Supply is committed to doubling your impact by matching all donations raised through this campaign.
Meet the Mighty Men Drilling Company
Empowering Lives Int'l (ELI) has brought real hope to thousands through drilling wells in Tanzania. ELI partners with Mighty Men Drilling Company. The name "Mighty Men" was inspired by David's Mighty Men in 2 Samuel 23 and was started by the staff of ELI Tanzania. ELI does not give hand outs but motivates the community to join together and contribute financially to their own well. Each is taken through a process which can take up to 12 months. The community forms a water committee and contributes toward the construction of their well, creating a sense of empowerment and ownership (most people in these communities live on less than $1/day.)
Easy Fundraising in 3 Steps:
Step 1: Make Water for Tanzania your VBS 2024 Project!
Order the Water For Tanzania Project Pack, and download the FREE Digital Mission Kit for daily scripts, printable posters, and more resources.
Step 2: Collect Change at your VBS
Get a big bucket from your local hardware store and place a Water for Tanzania sticker (provided in the Project Pack!) on the bucket. Your kids can collect funds in the same bucket that Tanzanian kids collect water!
Step 3: Send Donations
Submit your donations to Empowering Lives International:
ELI Headquarters
ATTN: Water for Tanzania
PO Box 67
Upland, CA 91785
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