Timeline

2010 The Water Team raised $60,000 to support relief efforts with emergency water supplies and a drill rig to build water wells in Haiti

2009 The Water Team raised enough money to build 18 water wells in Nigeria and Liberia

2008 The Water Team raised enough money to build 14 water wells in Nigeria and Liberia

2007 The Water Team raised enough money to build 3 water wells in Liberia - Juah Town, Owne Grove and at The Well Baby Clinic

2006 The Water Team raised enough money to build 3 water wells - Queen’s Village and issac David School in Liberia and Kwamai Village in Nigeria

2005 The Water Team raised enough money to build 2 wells in Liberia - Gbailay Town Quarter #2 and Buanlay Town #1

2004 The World Vision fund runs ended and we decided to keep The Water Team together, forget about the running part and raise funds for Lifewater Canada. That year we raised enough to build three water wells in Liberia - in Jinka Town, Kpor Town and at the Mennonite Church.

2002 The Water Team ran again in the World Vision Fun Run in Vancouver. The Water Team raised enough money to build a water well in Nicaragua. We sponsored a foster child – Ezequiel Sequeira Salgado as th contact person to help us followup on the water well’s condition.

2001 The Water Team put together a “team” of 29 people that ran in the World Vision Fun Run in Vancouver and raised money to build a water well in Mozambique. We sponsored a foster child Filipe as a contact for follow-up - only to find, when a friend visited Mozambique - there was no water well in Filipe’s village!

1999 The Hoch Foundation partnered with World Vision to pay for part of a water pipeline project in Quebrada Seca, Guatemala (Arcely Dias Dias foster child was the contact)

2000 The Water Team funded a concrete water holding tank in Northern Kenya for Fabian Lengusuranga’s family (foster child)

2000 The Water Team funded the construction of water pipes and water holding tanks in Los Vados, La Calea, Guatemala through World Vision and sponsored a foster child Yolanda to be the contact follow-up

1997 The Water Team funded a water well for Chikondi (foster child) in Malawa through World Vision

1996 The Water Team funded a well through Water Can in Northern Uganda

1996 The Water Team did a water project (”Water Jars”) in Thakara, Kenya through Save the Children

1992 The Water Team paid for the first well – a borehole in Zimbabwe through World Vision


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  • Water Facts

    • • 1.1 billion people don't have safe water
    • • 80% of child sickness and death is from unsafe water
    • • Every 15 seconds a child dies from a water-related illness
    • • 30,000 people die daily from unclean water
    • • There are Solutions
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    • The Water Team
    • #250-4438 w. 10th Ave.
    • Vancouver, B.C. V6R 4R8
    • Canada
    • thewaterteam[at]gmail.com