Our second project that you will be helping build will be in Nyang’ori, Kenya. We will be partnering with the global worker couple, Mike and Sheila Middlebrook. Here is message from them about the well: Read More »

This fall, as a part of A Beautiful Day we are endeavoring to take on our biggest challenge yet. Read More »

You’ve seen what you guys did last year. Here’s your chance to do it again. We bring you Beautiful Day 2011!!

Beautiful Day, October 28th, 2011, is going to play an important role in the Life Campaign. It will be the focused fundraising day of the Campaign. While youth groups and students will be fundraising all throughout the year, we’d like to make one month of our busy calendar years to be our primary focus month for raising and gathering funds for the much needed wells around our world. By bringing a focus to the month of October, culminating with a Beautiful Day on the 29th, we hope to bring a higher profile to this very important cause. Read More »

Last year, on October 29^th a group of youth across the nation of Canada gathered together and celebrated a Beautiful Day. Together, they raised $42000 for clean water in different parts of the world.

The three previous articles posted are just some of the great stories that are a result of a Beautiful Day. This year, we want to challenge you to double that amount. The villages in these articles have been impacted by the youth of Canada and will never be the same. If we doubled the amount of last year, how many more lives can be changed?

In the weeks to come on the Monday of each week, there will be articles about the people who you will be helping by participating in a Beautiful Day. But I can’t tell you about them yet. You’ll just have to come back and read for yourself.

Ngora District is semi arid and has experienced severe declines in water sources over the past few decades. This has been worsened by frequent and prolonged droughts resulting from climate change. Clean water sources are now inadequate as many spring wells continue to dry up. However, the human population continues to increase thus making available clean water insufficient for the community. People end up sharing spring wells with cattle and other animals thus increasing contamination of water. This has resulted to increased incidence of waterborne diseases and death. Read More »

Kalindi is a rural community in Lundazi District of the Eastern Province of Zambia. To get to Kalindi you must take a feeder road from the paved road. Although the feeder road is only 15 kms long it takes well over an hour to get there. Kalindi is considered a forgotten community in Zambia as it is difficult to visit and the people are extremely poor. Kalindi Community consists of 10 villages/farms with about 23 household compounds and a total population of about 250 persons. There is a Community School with 170 pupils and 3 teacher homes near the school… The Life Just Add Water well provided by Alberta District Youth has provided a borehole that has changed the lives of all 250 people living in Kalindi. The community now has an ongoing supply of safe drinking water for community members and school-going children. In addition to supplying clean drinking water for the community, the well is also supplying water to the agricultural project, set up by ERDO, at the Community School to sustain a food security program for the school-going children. Run off water from the well is collected in a shallow cement trough where the communities animals are watered. Read More »

Champheta is a small remote village in Eastern Province, Zambia. It is accessed by mud feeder roads and is often overlooked due to poverty and small size. It’s remote location means few agencies who offer assistance in education, water or aid are willing to work there. ERDO has worked with this community since 2003 through Global Worker Cheryl Ann Johnson. Champheta Community comprises of 6 villages with a total of about 26 household compounds. The estimated population is around 320 comprising of 85 women, 60 men, 106 primary school children and approximately 70 preschool and highschool children. Read More »

To Life Campaign,

Our church’s Youth Group organized a concert ‘Rock 4 Water’ to fundraise for
the Life Campaign on June 11, 2011

At the beginning of the school year we asked ourselves; “What angers God and what can we do about it?” The answer was the unavailability of clean water for so many people in this world, while we don’t even have to think about it, just turn on the tap. Read More »

So what does Western Ontario’s Overflow weekend and Life Campaign have in common? The crazy idea that we can give clean water to people who really need. This is just what the youth who attended Overflow did. They saw an issue and did something about it. Read More »

Ben Johnson had a different way of celebrating a big milestone of 40 years of age. On January 28^th, a surprise birthday was planned in his honour with an 80s theme; however, it was not your typical surprise. His wife decided to plan a “Life Campaign Birthday”. Instead of presents, guests were asked to donate money to the “Life Campaign”. The Johnson family felt that because the “Life Campaign” was something close to their heart, they felt that it would appropriate to help support the building of wells. Read More »