H2O

Golden Lake Elementary School is very proud of our Student Council Members and our students in grades Kindergarten through fifth. Our Golden Lake students are embarking on a world-wide service project. Our students will be working with H2O For Life, a non-profit organization, to help raise money to dig wells that will bring clean drinking water to the students of Chepkemel School in Kericho, Kenya.

It all started with one small project: students at Highview Middle School in Minnesota decided to raise money to fund a project in Kenya that would bring water to over 2000 people. They were so successful and so excited by the results that they just couldn't stop, and now we have H2O For Life!

The goal of H2O For Life is to match up schools in the US with schools in developing countries that don't have access to clean water. The schools in the US raise funds to help pay for water projects to deliver safe water to the students and teachers at their partner school. What a great idea! By connecting these schools directly to each other, everyone has an opportunity to learn some really valuable lessons.

Right now, H2O has schools in the US (mostly Minnesota) matched with schools in Kenya, Mozambique, Mali, and Nicaragua. There's great potential for this program to expand all across the US and the world though!

See how Centennial Middle School is also involved in H2O for Life.

What is H2O for Life?

H20 for Life, a nonprofit organization, connects schools in the United States with schools in developing countries to complete WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) projects.

H20 for Life aims to help students build a relationship with and an understanding of their partner school through curriculum and experiential learning while raising funds for WASH in Schools projects.

100 percent of contributions raised by schools goes directly to partner school projects. All overhead expenses are funded through in-kind donations, grants, and fund-raisers.

Why H2O for Life?

Every 15 seconds a child dies from lack of access to clean water.
Women and children can spend up to 60% of each day walking to collect water.
4,500 children die each day due to unsafe water and a lack of basic sanitation.
One billion people lack safe water.
Two billion people lack basic sanitation.

How Can Our School Help?

When students are exposed to compelling facts, they are drawn to take action. H2O for Life partners schools in the United States with schools in developing nations.

Through service learning projects, students learn of the global water crisis and raise funds needed to bring water, latrines and hygiene education to their partner school.

Map of Kericho, Kenya
Chepkemel school sign.	Building materials for new latrine and clean water.
Chepkemel's old latrines.	New latrine being dug.
Walking miles to collect water from the river.	Children collecting water for their families.
Children collecting water from the river.	Everyday children collect and carrying water back to their village.
Children being carried on their mother's back for the trip to the river for water.	Children walk to collect water from the river and carry it back to the village.
Children become sick from dirty drinking water.	Clean drinking water!
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Kericho, Kenya