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Kenya Harambee Gwassi: the Water Project
"If you want to get first run alone. If you want to go far, walk together" (Swahili proverb)

The water problem is a priority in all regions of Africa at risk of desertification: the aqueduct in the Nyandiwa peninsula required a huge commitment, both to program structural measures, both to manage the work with the community and institutions. The aqueduct is about 20 km long. and has been dug for half in farmland and half in hard rock, working with a jackhammer and dug by hand, together with local people. Along the way there are five tanks for storage and pressure reset and 14 fountains, that now allows the supply of drinking water to about 20,000 people in the vicinity of the villages. The system has improved the sanitary conditions, reduced epidemics that decimated the small population (arrange before they used only the water drawn from Victoria Lake or the puddles of rainwater) and freed women from having the daily transport for miles and miles! The community has played a leading role in every stage of the project and today it's managed, since 24 years with excellent results, with local technicians specifically trained: a good result in the spirit of 'Harambee': Don't welfarism, but working together for a project self-sufficient and able to independently develop a welfare increasingly stable in the region.
Recently ended the work of maintenance of the aqueduct Gwassi with the restoration and improvement of water supplies drinking water throughout the area.

Gwassi Water Project	God Bura: fountain and tank	Nyenga fountain
Scout Center fountain	Nyandiwa Main fountain	Kisaku fountain