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Mainne
294 people
Project Completed
July 23, 2020
“You have changed our lives in a way that none of us could have dreamed possible” - Monica
Mainne, Uganda, Africa
- Story
- Plan
- FAQ's
Mainne village received safe water on July 23, 2020.
“Children no longer fall sick, our harvests are plenty, and income is much more than we have ever had,” Monica, a mother of seven, said. “With safe water, there are no more diseases, which allows us to save and plan for a better future, especially for the young ones.”
“I have lived here long enough to have been through the worst,” she added. “There were moments when I sincerely believed I would not survive, but by the grace of God, I have lived long enough to see a day like this when my community has safe water and our children don’t just die like they used to, but go to school uninterrupted; I think I’m the happiest person on earth.”
Monica then spoke to our donors to thank and bless them.
“I pray that you will have whatever your heart desires because you made our dreams become a reality by donating to provide us safe water,” she said. “You have changed our lives in a way that none of us could have dreamed possible.”
With safe water, sanitation, and hygiene practices, families are transformed. When villages like Mainne receive safe water, children can go to school healthy, mothers and fathers can go to work, and everyone can thrive as God intends.
You can be a part of a transformation story. Sponsor a water project today, and follow along to see your impact.
Life in Mainne: Josephine and Susan’s Story
At her core, Josephine is a mother. She is a nurturer, a steady foundation to her family, and the caregiver to her five grandchildren.
It only takes Josephine and her daughter 15 minutes to reach the nearby well, but it will take them up to three hours just to fill one container of water. Because of this, children miss school, parents cannot work, and the community finds themselves in extreme poverty.
Often, families journey to a nearby pond to save valuable time.
Josephine is a widow with seven children. All of those children, other than her 20-year-old daughter Susan, have moved away to find work in town; they send a few dollars home each month to help feed the children that they have left in her care.
Susan has a six-month-old child and dreams of becoming a hairdresser.
“I would want to go back to vocational school… but it all needs money,” she said. “If we get another well in our area and the crowding reduces, I can spare time to work in people’s gardens, earn some money, and save for my tuition.”
Josephine was soft-spoken and appeared tired. We learned that her health is declining, and she has great pain in her chest from carrying water on her head for so many years.
“I tried my best to give the best education I could afford to my children,” she said.
In Mainne village, it’s common for children to drop out of school. The only safe source of water is shared with four villages, and waiting for water at the well keeps them from class. Drinking from the pond, however, makes them desperately ill.
Since her mother’s health has declined, Susan has taken on almost every household duty for her mother, including gathering water, raising her five nieces and nephews, and caring for her own young daughter.
Kidnaps and child sacrifices are rampant in this region of Uganda, and Susan fears sending the children to gather water after school. Instead, she goes herself. The burden is heavy for families in Mainne village.
“I hope someday soon we can get a solution to this water problem,” Josephine said.
You can help Josephine’s family and others in Mainne village today. Your gift will provide health training for each household, plus a new, safe water source near their village.
Sponsor Mainne village today.
Mainne is in a very remote region of Uganda
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 Mainne:
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
Mainne 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 Mainne 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! Mainne 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 294 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
Mainne village received safe water on July 23, 2020.
“Children no longer fall sick, our harvests are plenty, and income is much more than we have ever had,” Monica, a mother of seven, said. “With safe water, there are no more diseases, which allows us to save and plan for a better future, especially for the young ones.”
“I have lived here long enough to have been through the worst,” she added. “There were moments when I sincerely believed I would not survive, but by the grace of God, I have lived long enough to see a day like this when my community has safe water and our children don’t just die like they used to, but go to school uninterrupted; I think I’m the happiest person on earth.”
Monica then spoke to our donors to thank and bless them.
“I pray that you will have whatever your heart desires because you made our dreams become a reality by donating to provide us safe water,” she said. “You have changed our lives in a way that none of us could have dreamed possible.”
With safe water, sanitation, and hygiene practices, families are transformed. When villages like Mainne receive safe water, children can go to school healthy, mothers and fathers can go to work, and everyone can thrive as God intends.
You can be a part of a transformation story. Sponsor a water project today, and follow along to see your impact.
Life in Mainne: Josephine and Susan’s Story
At her core, Josephine is a mother. She is a nurturer, a steady foundation to her family, and the caregiver to her five grandchildren.
It only takes Josephine and her daughter 15 minutes to reach the nearby well, but it will take them up to three hours just to fill one container of water. Because of this, children miss school, parents cannot work, and the community finds themselves in extreme poverty.
Often, families journey to a nearby pond to save valuable time.
Josephine is a widow with seven children. All of those children, other than her 20-year-old daughter Susan, have moved away to find work in town; they send a few dollars home each month to help feed the children that they have left in her care.
Susan has a six-month-old child and dreams of becoming a hairdresser.
“I would want to go back to vocational school… but it all needs money,” she said. “If we get another well in our area and the crowding reduces, I can spare time to work in people’s gardens, earn some money, and save for my tuition.”
Josephine was soft-spoken and appeared tired. We learned that her health is declining, and she has great pain in her chest from carrying water on her head for so many years.
“I tried my best to give the best education I could afford to my children,” she said.
In Mainne village, it’s common for children to drop out of school. The only safe source of water is shared with four villages, and waiting for water at the well keeps them from class. Drinking from the pond, however, makes them desperately ill.
Since her mother’s health has declined, Susan has taken on almost every household duty for her mother, including gathering water, raising her five nieces and nephews, and caring for her own young daughter.
Kidnaps and child sacrifices are rampant in this region of Uganda, and Susan fears sending the children to gather water after school. Instead, she goes herself. The burden is heavy for families in Mainne village.
“I hope someday soon we can get a solution to this water problem,” Josephine said.
You can help Josephine’s family and others in Mainne village today. Your gift will provide health training for each household, plus a new, safe water source near their village.
Sponsor Mainne village today.
Plan
Mainne is in a very remote region of Uganda
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 Mainne:
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
Mainne 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 Mainne 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! Mainne 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 294 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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