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Fardano Huleti
249 people
Project Completed
“This new spring water makes me relax and feel joy.” - Aberash, mother of three
Fardano Huleti, Ethiopia, Africa
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- Plan
- FAQ's
Clean Water, New Life: Aberash’s Story
For years, children and adults died because of the pond water in Fardano Huleti village. It was their only source of drinking water. Parents lived in a constant, dreadful fear for their youngest children, who are the most susceptible to waterborne illness.
Aberash, a mother of three, shared this reality with us outside her home in rural Ethiopia. Today, Fardano Huleti village drinks safe water.
“My family not since been attacked by transmittable water caused diseases,” Aberash said with a smile.
In May of 2019, Lifewater’s drilling partners completed construction on the community’s new, protected spring. Families adopted life-saving sanitation and hygiene habits like using a bathroom with walls and a door to keep waste from small children.
“We have a new business on the roadside,” she said. “If God allows, we want to strengthen it,” Aberash said.
Since Aberash is no longer walking for water, she and her husband have more time and energy to invest in their family’s future. This new business is bringing in much-needed income and helping to send all three of Aberash’s children to school.
Before safe water, school attendance was sparse for Aberash’s family and her neighbors in Fardano Huleti village. Sickness and extreme poverty made education a luxury. Now, health abounds and so does opportunity.
“It makes me glad when I am washing every household material using this clean water,” Aberash said. “This new spring water makes me relax and feel joy.”
With safe water and sanitation practices, families like Aberash’s are transformed. You can be a part of a transformation story. Sponsor a water project today, and follow along to see your impact.
Life in Fardano Huleti: Danboba’s Story
May 2018
Danboba watches Yenu leave for the market each day, her tired limbs, her face determined—they mimic his own. But she is covered always by a blanket of sadness, the knowledge that her family has no other options.
Danboba lives in Fardano Huleti village with his wife, Yenu, and their five small children.
The father of five stays home to care for the children and tend to his crops while his wife sells their produce at the local market, a 7.5 mile walk from their home.
He went to school until second grade, and his wife has never set foot in a classroom; each grew up in extreme poverty, and they are doing all they can to keep their own children in school.
Their village is in urgent need of safe water. The pond that Danboba’s children gather water from is teeming with disease, and people are dying every month.
“We are losing our friends and neighbors and my mind is full of worry,” he said. “We continue drinking from this source because we do not have another option.”
Families are dwindling in number. Danboba knows a family who lost three children to acute watery diarrhea, a disease associated with poor hygiene and sanitation.
“I worry for my children and I wish to receive safe water in my village soon,” he said.
Already, he and Yenu have had to sell cattle and entire pieces of their land to pay for their children’s ever-present medical bills.
“We accept now that our money will go towards treatment for waterborne illness,” he said.
You can help Fardano Huleti village today. Your gift will provide health training for each household, plus a new, safe water source near their village.
Sponsor Fardano Huleti village today.
Fardano Huleti is in a very remote region of Ethiopia
View Interactive Map
This village is on its way to becoming a Healthy Village. The process takes approximately 24 months from start to finish. You can follow along with the progress below.
Here’s the Plan for Fardano Huleti:
Project Ready
Villages are carefully selected by Lifewater staff and wait for program work to begin in their area.
CLTS
In Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), each village goes through exercises that reveal how their current practices are making them sick, such as identifying all the places where feces are contaminating their environment. This important step equips communities to be knowledgeable about their health and willing to make changes.
Healthy Homes Registered
A home is certified healthy when a family has adopted five healthy habits: washing hands with soap and water, storing and using water safely, building and using a bathroom with a roof and door, using a drying rack to keep dishes off the ground, and keeping the area around the home safe and clean.
ODF
When each household builds and uses their own functioning restroom, a community earns an “Open Defecation Free” (ODF) certification. Each country has their own processes and celebration for ODF villages, and it’s a huge accomplishment towards improved health for everyone.
Water Committee Selected
Fardano Huleti has selected water committee members to manage the safe village water source. Forming a water committee is a key step toward establishing a safe water source in a village. Committees are made up of local men and women who manage the well and collect fees, ensuring the community’s investment lasts for generations to come.
Construction Started
Work is officially underway to build a new water source for Fardano Huleti village. Our local teams are using technology appropriate to the region and geography to ensure the new water source is sustainable.
Village Has Safe Water Source
The new safe water source is now complete!
Clean, safe water transforms a village. Everyone gathers to celebrate, thanking God for the miracle in their community.
Healthy Village
Great news! Fardano Huleti is now a certified Healthy Village. That means the safe water source is complete and more than 90% of the community’s homes are healthy. That is a new future for 249 children and families.
Water Project FAQs
When you sponsor a water project, you are helping bring lasting change. Your gift provides:
- House-to-house hygiene and sanitation education
- Custom engineered water source
- Construction of a safe water source
- Community engagement by Lifewater field staff to ensure change lasts
Lifewater also provides:
- Monitoring and evaluation of the project with real-time updates to donors
- Local church partnerships that equip the church to be the hands and feet of Jesus
- Five-year water source maintenance and sustainability (funded by beneficiary communities on a volunteer basis)
Yes! The village you are helping is a real village. All families photographed or shared from the project page have given their permission to have their information shared with you.
Lifewater has local staff that live and serve among the communities and schools where Lifewater works. Our staff know the language and the culture and are best equipped to serve communities. Because we seek to ensure sustainable water projects and community buy in, we do not allow donors to visit the projects they sponsor. However, we do commit to sending real-time updates, photos, and stories from the projects themselves.
With more than 40 years’ experience, LIfewater is the longest-running Christian clean water charity in North America. Over those 40 years, Lifewater has worked in more than 45 different countries. Currently, our work is focused in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania) and Southeast Asia (Cambodia).
Lifewater identifies countries and regions that are unreached and underserved with basic water access and sanitation, which means we focus on areas where other organizations are not serving.
Although great strides have been made in the past 20 years to solve the global water crisis, remote and rural populations still remain unreached with adequate water and sanitation. These distant regions are difficult and often costly for governments and NGOs to serve well. Many of these communities feel as though they have been forgotten.
Currently, Lifewater has programs in Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, and Cambodia. You can go to lifewater.org/projects to select a specific water project to help. Because our programs are regionalized and made in partnership with the local governments, we are not able to take requests for specific water projects outside of our existing programs.
Lifewater budgets 80% of expenditures for programs. The remaining 20% is split between administrative/management and fundraising expenses. This ratio is best in class for nonprofits and is why Lifewater has received the highest rating from Charity Navigator.
Administrative/management expenses are used to ensure that we are effective in managing the funds entrusted to us and include the following types of expenses: accounting personnel, leadership time, professional development of staff, external auditors, legal counsel, government registration expenses in every U.S. state, credit card fees for processing donations, bank fees, database maintenance, and office expenses.
Fundraising expenses generate the income needed to do the work that we set out to do. These include the cost of direct mail appeals and communication, marketing projects, donor relations personnel, and email communication systems. Last year, every dollar invested into Lifewater fundraising efforts resulted in $10 of donation for the organization.
Over our 40 year history, Lifewater has received the highest accreditations from the most respected rating organization in the industry. Lifewater is recognized as one of the top-rated charities in the United States by independent reporting organizations, including:
- Charity Navigator (four stars)
- Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA)
- Guidestar (Platinum)
- Great Nonprofits (five star)
- Excellence in Giving
Learn more at https://lifewater.org/top-rated-charity.
Lifewater’s work is founded on the belief that every person is made in the image of God. It is with this conviction that we seek out the globe’s most unreached, marginalized people groups in need of safe water.
Both nationally and internationally, 100 percent of our staff are Christians. These Christian staff help facilitate Lifewater’s Healthy Church strategy in communities. And, where there are no churches, we work with church planting partners to start new churches.
To create Healthy Churches, Lifewater first trains church leaders in foundational theology. These leaders are equipped with the basic story of the Christian faith and the biblical mandate to love others. Leaders learn that stopping the spread of disease and caring for the vulnerable aligns with our responsibility as Christians to love our neighbor.
Second, Lifewater ensures churches have safe bathrooms on their premises, handwashing stations, clean water nearby, and the education to promote health within their congregations. It’s imperative that churches are early adopters of healthy hygiene practices.
Third, Lifewater encourages churches to help vulnerable households become Healthy Homes. Church leaders undergo a training to become WASH (water access, sanitation, and hygiene) advocates in their communities. These advocates are encouraged to identify widows, child-headed households, the elderly, and the disabled to help them meet the health standards of Lifewater’s programs.
Lifewater’s Vision of a Healthy Village strategy is a relationship-first method. This model transforms entire regions house by house, village by village, and school by school. It is among the most intensive household-level work happening in the entire developing world and is closely tracked for progress, sustainability, and overall impact.
We construct custom-engineered safe water sources and teach life-saving health and sanitation practices in local villages and schools in need.
“We are confident Lifewater’s work will have life-sustaining impact.”
– Cary A. Paine, The Stewardship Foundation
Story
Clean Water, New Life: Aberash’s Story
For years, children and adults died because of the pond water in Fardano Huleti village. It was their only source of drinking water. Parents lived in a constant, dreadful fear for their youngest children, who are the most susceptible to waterborne illness.
Aberash, a mother of three, shared this reality with us outside her home in rural Ethiopia. Today, Fardano Huleti village drinks safe water.
“My family not since been attacked by transmittable water caused diseases,” Aberash said with a smile.
In May of 2019, Lifewater’s drilling partners completed construction on the community’s new, protected spring. Families adopted life-saving sanitation and hygiene habits like using a bathroom with walls and a door to keep waste from small children.
“We have a new business on the roadside,” she said. “If God allows, we want to strengthen it,” Aberash said.
Since Aberash is no longer walking for water, she and her husband have more time and energy to invest in their family’s future. This new business is bringing in much-needed income and helping to send all three of Aberash’s children to school.
Before safe water, school attendance was sparse for Aberash’s family and her neighbors in Fardano Huleti village. Sickness and extreme poverty made education a luxury. Now, health abounds and so does opportunity.
“It makes me glad when I am washing every household material using this clean water,” Aberash said. “This new spring water makes me relax and feel joy.”
With safe water and sanitation practices, families like Aberash’s are transformed. You can be a part of a transformation story. Sponsor a water project today, and follow along to see your impact.
Life in Fardano Huleti: Danboba’s Story
May 2018
Danboba watches Yenu leave for the market each day, her tired limbs, her face determined—they mimic his own. But she is covered always by a blanket of sadness, the knowledge that her family has no other options.
Danboba lives in Fardano Huleti village with his wife, Yenu, and their five small children.
The father of five stays home to care for the children and tend to his crops while his wife sells their produce at the local market, a 7.5 mile walk from their home.
He went to school until second grade, and his wife has never set foot in a classroom; each grew up in extreme poverty, and they are doing all they can to keep their own children in school.
Their village is in urgent need of safe water. The pond that Danboba’s children gather water from is teeming with disease, and people are dying every month.
“We are losing our friends and neighbors and my mind is full of worry,” he said. “We continue drinking from this source because we do not have another option.”
Families are dwindling in number. Danboba knows a family who lost three children to acute watery diarrhea, a disease associated with poor hygiene and sanitation.
“I worry for my children and I wish to receive safe water in my village soon,” he said.
Already, he and Yenu have had to sell cattle and entire pieces of their land to pay for their children’s ever-present medical bills.
“We accept now that our money will go towards treatment for waterborne illness,” he said.
You can help Fardano Huleti village today. Your gift will provide health training for each household, plus a new, safe water source near their village.
Sponsor Fardano Huleti village today.
Plan
Fardano Huleti is in a very remote region of Ethiopia
View Interactive Map
This village is on its way to becoming a Healthy Village. The process takes approximately 24 months from start to finish. You can follow along with the progress below.
Here’s the Plan for Fardano Huleti:
Project Ready
Villages are carefully selected by Lifewater staff and wait for program work to begin in their area.
CLTS
In Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), each village goes through exercises that reveal how their current practices are making them sick, such as identifying all the places where feces are contaminating their environment. This important step equips communities to be knowledgeable about their health and willing to make changes.
Healthy Homes Registered
A home is certified healthy when a family has adopted five healthy habits: washing hands with soap and water, storing and using water safely, building and using a bathroom with a roof and door, using a drying rack to keep dishes off the ground, and keeping the area around the home safe and clean.
ODF
When each household builds and uses their own functioning restroom, a community earns an “Open Defecation Free” (ODF) certification. Each country has their own processes and celebration for ODF villages, and it’s a huge accomplishment towards improved health for everyone.
Water Committee Selected
Fardano Huleti has selected water committee members to manage the safe village water source. Forming a water committee is a key step toward establishing a safe water source in a village. Committees are made up of local men and women who manage the well and collect fees, ensuring the community’s investment lasts for generations to come.
Construction Started
Work is officially underway to build a new water source for Fardano Huleti village. Our local teams are using technology appropriate to the region and geography to ensure the new water source is sustainable.
Village Has Safe Water Source
The new safe water source is now complete!
Clean, safe water transforms a village. Everyone gathers to celebrate, thanking God for the miracle in their community.
Healthy Village
Great news! Fardano Huleti is now a certified Healthy Village. That means the safe water source is complete and more than 90% of the community’s homes are healthy. That is a new future for 249 children and families.
FAQ's
Water Project FAQs
When you sponsor a water project, you are helping bring lasting change. Your gift provides:
- House-to-house hygiene and sanitation education
- Custom engineered water source
- Construction of a safe water source
- Community engagement by Lifewater field staff to ensure change lasts
Lifewater also provides:
- Monitoring and evaluation of the project with real-time updates to donors
- Local church partnerships that equip the church to be the hands and feet of Jesus
- Five-year water source maintenance and sustainability (funded by beneficiary communities on a volunteer basis)
Yes! The village you are helping is a real village. All families photographed or shared from the project page have given their permission to have their information shared with you.
Lifewater has local staff that live and serve among the communities and schools where Lifewater works. Our staff know the language and the culture and are best equipped to serve communities. Because we seek to ensure sustainable water projects and community buy in, we do not allow donors to visit the projects they sponsor. However, we do commit to sending real-time updates, photos, and stories from the projects themselves.
With more than 40 years’ experience, LIfewater is the longest-running Christian clean water charity in North America. Over those 40 years, Lifewater has worked in more than 45 different countries. Currently, our work is focused in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania) and Southeast Asia (Cambodia).
Lifewater identifies countries and regions that are unreached and underserved with basic water access and sanitation, which means we focus on areas where other organizations are not serving.
Although great strides have been made in the past 20 years to solve the global water crisis, remote and rural populations still remain unreached with adequate water and sanitation. These distant regions are difficult and often costly for governments and NGOs to serve well. Many of these communities feel as though they have been forgotten.
Currently, Lifewater has programs in Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, and Cambodia. You can go to lifewater.org/projects to select a specific water project to help. Because our programs are regionalized and made in partnership with the local governments, we are not able to take requests for specific water projects outside of our existing programs.
Lifewater budgets 80% of expenditures for programs. The remaining 20% is split between administrative/management and fundraising expenses. This ratio is best in class for nonprofits and is why Lifewater has received the highest rating from Charity Navigator.
Administrative/management expenses are used to ensure that we are effective in managing the funds entrusted to us and include the following types of expenses: accounting personnel, leadership time, professional development of staff, external auditors, legal counsel, government registration expenses in every U.S. state, credit card fees for processing donations, bank fees, database maintenance, and office expenses.
Fundraising expenses generate the income needed to do the work that we set out to do. These include the cost of direct mail appeals and communication, marketing projects, donor relations personnel, and email communication systems. Last year, every dollar invested into Lifewater fundraising efforts resulted in $10 of donation for the organization.
Over our 40 year history, Lifewater has received the highest accreditations from the most respected rating organization in the industry. Lifewater is recognized as one of the top-rated charities in the United States by independent reporting organizations, including:
- Charity Navigator (four stars)
- Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA)
- Guidestar (Platinum)
- Great Nonprofits (five star)
- Excellence in Giving
Learn more at https://lifewater.org/top-rated-charity.
Lifewater’s work is founded on the belief that every person is made in the image of God. It is with this conviction that we seek out the globe’s most unreached, marginalized people groups in need of safe water.
Both nationally and internationally, 100 percent of our staff are Christians. These Christian staff help facilitate Lifewater’s Healthy Church strategy in communities. And, where there are no churches, we work with church planting partners to start new churches.
To create Healthy Churches, Lifewater first trains church leaders in foundational theology. These leaders are equipped with the basic story of the Christian faith and the biblical mandate to love others. Leaders learn that stopping the spread of disease and caring for the vulnerable aligns with our responsibility as Christians to love our neighbor.
Second, Lifewater ensures churches have safe bathrooms on their premises, handwashing stations, clean water nearby, and the education to promote health within their congregations. It’s imperative that churches are early adopters of healthy hygiene practices.
Third, Lifewater encourages churches to help vulnerable households become Healthy Homes. Church leaders undergo a training to become WASH (water access, sanitation, and hygiene) advocates in their communities. These advocates are encouraged to identify widows, child-headed households, the elderly, and the disabled to help them meet the health standards of Lifewater’s programs.
Lifewater’s Vision of a Healthy Village strategy is a relationship-first method. This model transforms entire regions house by house, village by village, and school by school. It is among the most intensive household-level work happening in the entire developing world and is closely tracked for progress, sustainability, and overall impact.
We construct custom-engineered safe water sources and teach life-saving health and sanitation practices in local villages and schools in need.
Your gift reflects your trust in Lifewater International. We commit to honor your generosity by using your gift to help further the mission and vision of Lifewater International. Your donation is used by Lifewater International according to the project objectives to provide safe drinking water and improved sanitation and hygiene within the specified program area. Lifewater International is a charitable organization as described in 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, registered in the United States. All donations are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
Donations are non-refundable. Lifewater International will honor a donor’s request for any pre-approved program or project whenever possible. In rare occasions where this is not possible, gifts will be used where needed, in accordance with the organization’s charitable purpose. In accordance with this policy, donor’s explicitly release Lifewater International from further restriction on such funds.
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