St. Charles School In Uganda
There are 700 students at St. Charles School in Uganda. Half are orphans. Each child has to walk miles a day for water and haul it back to school. Then they need to boil it in the shack pictured in the gallery below. Older kids carry about 5 gallons at a time. Because the girls are not “sanitary” 1 week out of the month and washing conditions do not exist, they are unable to attend school. When they travel so far for water, they risk being raped.
Drink Local – Drink Tap has teamed up with Team Hope and Blue Planet Network to organize and fund the “Making Waves from Cleveland to Uganda” project to create access to safe drinking water on site at the St. Charles School. Through this program, Carl and Louis Stokes Central Academy, a K-8 public school in Cleveland, has made St. Charles its “sister school.” The students will be participating in programs emphasizing the value of water as a globally shared resource and showing solidarity with their new pen pals in Uganda. They will be carrying two liter bottles of water to a celebration in downtown Cleveland on March 22, World Water Day, and participating in events organized by Drink Local – Drink Tap.
Team H2Ope has identified St. Charles as one of its specific projects for funding. It is determined to make people aware of the plight of the students at St. Charles, which unfortunately, is typical of thousands of rural communities throughout the world.
Please join Team H2Ope in the effort to bring safe drinking water to St. Charles School in Uganda. Access to clean water will empower 700 students and the surrounding community with health, education and prosperity.
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Without good clean then life will cgnahe. We take clean water for granted and dont ever think about what would it be like if we did not have it. Look at most of these countries that dont have clean water its a shame.