Kids for the Kingdom Annual Report 2019

Kids for the Kingdom
Clean
Water
Projects
A typical water well can be installed by Kids for the Kingdom’s
teams for $3,908 and can provide clean, safe drinking water
for thousands of people over the course of the 20 year
lifespan of the well.
In developed countries, we often take clean, safe
drinking water for granted. But in much of the world,
clean water is virtually impossible to obtain. People
in those areas are forced to bring dirty, disease ridden
water home to drink and cook with. They constantly
worry if they are making their children and families
sick with the water they draw from muddy puddles
and streams. Kids for the Kingdom takes a unique
approach to helping supply people to clean, safe
water. Each community applying for a water
well provides the manual labor to help install the well
- and houses and feeds the drilling team. After the
well is in, the beneficiaries are required to set up
a board of directors to oversee the water well and
collect a small fee from each user. This empowers
the local community to take ownership over their
water well and provides a small fund to maintain and
repair the well as necessary. A partnership with Kids
for the Kingdom creates a relationship of equals
and gives communities ‘skin-in-the-game’ by
allowing them to participate in the work, giving them
ownership of the project.