Future Projects
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Library Project: Timau Kenya
Catholic lay-missionary Deb Schachner of O’Fallon, Illinois is currently raising funds for a library project in Timau, Kenya where Deb served and lived in 2003. This
project is a collaboration between the AWE Foundation, The Kenya
National Library Service, and the community of Timau, Kenya. |
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The orphans of Timau, Kenya will benefit greatly by having a library, a sanctuary, where they will be free to study, learn, and dream. |
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Timau
Library Objective: Who
will benefit?: Community
Involvement: Kenyan
Goverment Involvement: AWE
Foundation’s Role: |
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Approximately 25 families will be involved in this small project. Each family is responsible for $110 and the unskilled volunteer labor necessary to complete the project. The preparation and planning stages are now complete. The community is organized and the engineering plan is ready, so we will simply have to wait until we raise enough funds in order to begin construction.
The budget for this project is about $40,000.00.
Higueras current source
 Lisa with village girl |
 Higueras water project, girl washing |
Water Project: Marañon & Soliman, El Salvador
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water project in Soliman & Marañon is
already underway. The community’s water committee has already
organized volunteer work groups, paid for the engineering plan, and
has completed storage shed which will be used to house tools and
materials
throughout the project. What makes this project unique is that they have initiated it without outside financial support. All funds to date have come from the villagers themselves. They solicited support from the AWE Foundation in 2005. We are currently guiding them through the initial processes, but we haven’t delegated any funds for their project at this time. We hope to raise money and help finance their project to bring them water as soon as possible. |
Building storage shed |
History of Soliman & Marañon:
Marañon & Soliman are agricultural communities that are located
in the middle and on the outskirts of a coffee plantation. Besides the
season work they find picking coffee beans, the villagers survive by
growing corn and beans. Soliman received electricity in 2004. Marañon
does not have electricity yet; however, their City Hall is close to finishing
their electrification project. The final piece will be a transformer
that will soon be purchased and installed.
Both villages have small schools that go through 9th grades. Soliman recently solicited and received a grant from the Japanese Embassy which built a new school for the villagers. The previous school was destroyed in the 2001 earthquakes.
Currently, villagers haul their water on horseback from a river and its contributaries which are located 45 minutes to an hour down the mountain in the valley. The horses haul approximately 20 gallons at time. A family must make 1-3 trips daily to supply the water necessary to drink, cook, clean, and bathe.
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