This Giving Tuesday, Help Us Bring Clean Water to Imurtot Health Center!

ALL GIVING TUESDAY GIFTS MATCHED! Help us raise $20,000 to solve Imurtot Health Center's water problem and equip every ward of their hospital with water storage and adequate piping.

This Giving Tuesday, Help Us Bring Clean Water to Imurtot Health Center! image

THIS GIVING TUESDAY, ALL DONATIONS WILL BE MATCHED UP TO $10,000!

Imurtot Health Center's Need for Clean Water

As we travel through our work region in Southern Kenya, we see projects built by others that are falling apart and in need of repair. We are ready, with your generous support, to rehabilitate, upgrade, and restore broken and incomplete projects to full functionality. Your Giving Tuesday gift will help more people have reliable water next year.

This Giving Tuesday, we're raising $20,000 to equip Imurtot Health Center with water storage and piping.

At Imurtot Health Center, a regional hospital for over 30,000 Maasai residents in the Mt. Kilimanjaro highland region, a borehole well was drilled 2 years ago by the Kenyan government and sat unused — nobody installed a water pump or power source for 18 months.

Today, though it’s now equipped, the well is still without water storage or piping into the facility. Hospital administrators have reached out to the local government for help installing new water tanks. Their response? A 2-year waiting list.

A hospital without a dependable water supply is an obvious sanitation hazard, especially for birthing mothers in the maternity ward.

Imurtot Health Center and its patients need a solution in 2026, not 2028.

With your help, we can solve this problem immediately.

Are you ready to help us solve Imurtot's water problem right away?

The location of the Imurtot Health Center, as seen from Google Maps satellite view. Notice the lush green of Mt. Kilimanjaro and the dry region around Imurtot.

The Health Center, which is currently without water storage or piping into the facilitiy.

We Answer the Need for Clean Water

In 2006, I was on a fundraising walk in southern Kenya, raising money for girls to attend school. But instead, I saw girls carrying five gallon jerry cans slung on their backs as they helped their moms fetch water.

The fact is that clean water unleashes opportunities for so many people. New water sources reduce the distance women and girls walk for water. Women have more time and girls can attend school.

Not only is the daily burden of collecting water lifted — clean water also improves health, reduces waterborne illnesses, and provides greater dignity.

For 18 years, we have developed a comprehensive approach to transformation through our WASH (clean water, sanitation, and hygiene) projects.

As our projects deliver uninterrupted water supplies and practical education to tens of thousands every day, the requests for water persist.

To fulfill the growing need for clean water, we have set the goal to raise $250,000 for this year-end Clean Water Fund. All Giving Tuesday donations will go towards this ambitious goal.

We are asking for YOU to step up and support us.

- Joyce Tannian, Executive Director & Co-Founder

A woman shortly after giving birth at Imurtot. The Health Center doesn't have pipelines to bring clean water from the borehole to the hospital buildings, making sanitation during childbirth incredibly difficult.

The Borehole, though drilled and equipped with power, doesn't have water storage or piping into the facilities. All Giving Tuesday donations will support this effort to bring clean water into each hospital ward.

How You Can Help

We know donors like you contribute your hard-earned dollars to support us. This is why we maintain high standards with all our projects, no matter the size.

A key lesson we’ve learned is that unless people are well trained, water systems fail. That’s why we invest in community leadership at each project by developing Water Management Committees and training them annually.

Because of this approach, our WASH projects are 90% successful , with some running continuously for over 15 years.

This holiday season, we're seeking to raise $250,000 to establish our Clean Water Fund and ensure our ongoing programs, such as Livestock as a Business and Hope for Widows, continue without interruption next year. With water available, communities can participate in our income generating programs.

Our Giving Tuesday campaign for Imurtot will contribute to this fund,

When the work seems overwhelming, it’s helpful to remind myself of how many people have supported us over the years. Thousands of generous people — just like YOU — have responded with abundant gifts.

Would you consider donating to our Clean Water Fund so we can solve Imurtot Health Center's water problem in 2026?

The sign outside of Imurtot Health Center.

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