By Tom Webber | BridgIT Water Foundation Development Director
We have good news to report! Thanks to your generosity, the BridgIT Water Foundation has completed the first 3 borewells in its 2018 Andhra Pradesh program: Boramallapalle Community Well, Chemullapalle Community Well, and Mahadevpalli Dalit Colony Community Well. The construction and community education work was done by SPREAWS, BridgIT's local NGO partner.
Each of these wells provides safe, clean drinking water to about 1,000 people in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. Previously the women were forced to walk for kilometers to collect contaminated water from drainage ditches or polluted waterways. From a health perspective alone, access to safe, clean water is a life changer because it greatly reduces the threat of miserable water-borne diseases like cholera, dysentery, and diarrhea. Now with access to clean water, adults will have more time to work and children will be able to spend more time in school and studying. The wells also offer other benefits such as freeing up time for women to start or expand entrepreneurial businesses that can lead to improved livelihoods for their families. The convenience of a water well in the village is profound. Please check the BridgIT Water Foundation Facebook page for more photos and videos from these villages.
Thank you so much for your support for this project. The all-volunteer BridgIT Water Foundation is continuing to fundraise in 2018 on the Global Giving platform to bring more safe, clean water wells to the people in this part of India. Please consider making further contributions to this cause. Thank you.
Please help BridgIT to expand the fundraising network by speaking with friends and family about this success, and invite them to join with us to bring the basic human right of safe drinking water to more people in rural India.
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