OUR CURRENT PROJECTs... Currently, COME UNITY is buildling a borehole in rural Sheda, Ethiopia. Currenlty, 6,000 people drink water from the dirty river that is there. We are also excited to add 16 new girls to our Sponsorship Program. Sponsorship began January 1st.
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Tuungane Amani Kenya. Our on the ground partners while we reside in the US. This Dutch based NGO has ensured the success and transparency of our projects while sharing their wisdom and experience about work in Africa.
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CALL 609.462.9397 OUR PAST PROJECTS ILBISSIL, KENYA Borehole complete: 9/09 Phase II complete: 9/10 Services: 1700 people Ilbissil is a small Maasai community nearly 30 miles north of the Tanzanian border. 3,000 people reside in the dry desert land of Ilbissil, most of whom are Maasai through and through. In Maasai culture it is not always common for women and girls to have an education. Young girls are often married off early, do not get a decent education, and/or undergo the horrible practice of female circumcision. PHASE I. A borehole at Ilbissil drastically changes this community. The Ilbissil Secondary GIrls School school services 300 girls who receive a higher education. The school neighbors Ilbissil Primary School (1200 students) and Africa Inland Church of Ilbissil (150 congregates). We visited with Pastor John Kiroka, and he is one of the most loving, genuine, honest men in Kenya. We visited the girls at the ISGS and they won our hearts. Our borehole in Ilbissil was built 10/9/09! PHASE II. The borehole was built over one kilometer from the school because that is the spot the drillers found the most water. We want these children to be in school, investing in their futures, and not walking back and forth to collect water. Phase two of this project in Ilbissil included a pump for their well, tanks, and piping so the clean water is readily available. PHASE III. We initiated a girls sponsorship program and income generating activities in Ilbissil. Education and sustainable solutions are the key to moving them out of poverty. Our 15 sponsor families have nine cows and a women's beadwork initiative that will serve as sustenence and continued education by way of enabling them to pay school fees.  PANCHYATH PHALA, INDIA Borehole complete: 6/10 Services: 300 people
KISERIAN SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT Borehole complete: 12/2010 Services: up to 1000 local women COME UNITY provided a pump for the Help A Child Africa Kiserian Project. What right now looks like a blank slate of land will soon be a center where local women will come to learn agriculture skills, greenhouse benefits, small business practices. They will learn life skills that will contribute to better lives for themselves, their families and their communities. This empty plot of land will soon hold a fish pond and therefore the opportunity to learn a different way of life. Water is the source of all of these projects, and we are excited to return to Africa and see what comes of this exciting new endeavor!  |
Since 2007, Here's what we have done: : - Joined forces with a number of partners including Generosity Water, Help A Child, Compassion Corps, and Project X. - Completed five water projects: Ilbissil, Kenya, Kiserian, Kenya, Gulu, Uganda, Ghana and India. - Raised $6,000 for food, teacher's salaries, medical expenses, uniforms, mattresses, (etc) in the community of Ongata-Rongai, Kenya. - Provided educationg through child sponsorships to 15 girls in Kenya. - Assisted Rider University and Spirit In Motion Ballet Theatre as they raised funds for our well in Ilbissil. - Taken one team of COME UNITY supporters to Kenya.
- Been to Uganda twice. - Been to Ethiopia once. Sheda, Ethiopia Borehole: In process Services: 6,000 people Sheda is a quaint village in rural Western Ethiopia. Nearly 6,000 people are drinking dirty water from the river there right now. They are a committed group of people, and committed to helping build this borehole with local materials and labor. The leaders of this community are instilling hope and good morals into the people of Sheda. We look forward to completing this project in 2012.
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