My name is grace Jula, 56 years. Fualwonga is where I worship. I was very happy when I was selected to be among the people to undergo the discipleship making movement in fualwonga parish organized by feat Africa a faith based organization working in Pakwach district.

Before the call for the training, I work in my church as a women leader where I felt still my faith was not strengthen much but with the in depth teaching on the scriptures of Christ Jesus, the that lived full of worldly adoring will come to an end and instead live  to praise God as a Christian.

The training made me understand the bible very well and also taught me how to preach the gospel to the world in fulfilment of the scriptures. I now feel nourished with the holy gospel of Christ Jesus our savior. At my age now, I wish to worship and prays my God through evangelizing the good news of Christ to the world. With the knowledge I have got, I now plan to go and participate fully in a door to door evangelism program in my village.

“With the fruit of faith Feat Africa has offered through fualwonga church, we shall go out to the world and bring to God the lost sheep that are out there. Says Jula.”

This is the time we will use to give direction to the youth in our church to know Christ as their personal savior. I pray God gives us the strength to fulfill his calling our church.

“We thank you feat Africa for the initiative to empower us with word of God through the discipleship movement making training. We pray that you do the same to other people in our communities. Says Jula.”

My name is Asiki Agele, 40 years, a peasant farmer, a father of 7, living in Godria Awu village. Godria is a one of the villages with a unique and loving group of people in DR Congo. The people living in this village are very much marginalized when it comes to clean water, we drink from unprotected spring and streams. Typhoid, diarrhea, stomach ache, skin rushes are very common due to the dirty water we use in homes.

In the side of medication, we spend about 200,000shillings on medication. We borrow money and sometimes one sells the available animals to pay the bills.
“Agele declares that, the problem of access to clean water has harmfully affected the social life of many families.”

Nevertheless, with the response for clean water access by feat Africa at house hold level through the use of the biosand filters, my family with the community of Godria will be different. Ailments got from drinking dirty water will reduce. I believe, I will not suffer from typhoid regularly like before, and I will be able to care for my family.

I got information on the biosand filters from during a training on clean and safe water access in our homes done in our church by humanitarian workers from Feat Africa, and I immediately requested for one.
I will be able to save money for other activities in the future and it will help us to save enough for the family and educate the children.

“I am proud for feat Africa for the support by giving us clean and better ways of drinking safe water for our homes and Godria Village. May God bless you and we pray you continue to support our people, says Agele.”

My name is Emmanuel Jurua, 33 years, a pastor of the born again church in Likya village, in this village, many Christians have been battling health problems, with some of them being as a result of drinking unsafe water.  Many Christian’s miss church services to sicknesses like, Typhoid, diarrhea, stomach ache, among others which are very common here. This has greatly affected church services.

I used to preach the word of God to the Christians in home states who are unable to go for prayers in the church and most of them testify of poor health that makes them not go to church on Sundays with others being old age.

“But generally, many people from the village were not enriched with the Gospel of Christ whereby many of them have taken to live a life full of the earthly desires, says Jurua.”

With the protection of spring water by feat Africa, the Christians’ attendance of church has improved. There’s a great reduction in illnesses that used to affect Christians, The number of Christians has increased during service.

Since the protection of the spring by feat Africa, the community’s social life changed and many people came church. The project has improved the church programs through the clean water for drinking.

The project has helped the church to preach the gospel to many people. The loveliness of Christ is always shared through access to clean water.

“I thank feat Africa for blessings giving us with clean for our community. May God bless you and as you continue to support our people, says Jurua.”

Praise the lord, my name is Thomson Oyikrwoth, the parish priest of fualwonga parish in Alwi sub county Pakwach district. I am grateful for the discipleship making movement training that has positively impacted on the Christians that have been trained. The training has empowered me allot since many have been called for the work of Christ. It was not an easy work before due to resource constraints whereby the ministry works were on done within the church due to shortage in the number of disciples.

Since the start of the training, the disciples trained have started to put in practice the skills and knowledge they have got from the training with some of them going to minister in the various villages. The result of the training was visible as 5 people accepted Christ Jesus as their personal savior.

“Before this training organized by feat Africa, we had challenges in evangelism due to the numbers of people with the knowledge of evangelizing to the world. Says Oyikrwoth.”

Resources and evangelists were also not there to organize for such trainings but with the empowerment from feat Africa, I believe that evangelism in fualwonga parish will cover a great area and many people will be reached with the gospel of Christ.

As the church of Fualwonga, we now praise the almighty God’s name for giving us such a great opportunity to be equipped with the holy word and use it to preach to others. We pray that God blessing be upon us in the community of fualwonga parish and give the same opportunity to other parishes.

“Thank you feat Africa for the support to our church and community, may God bless you and continue to support our people. Says Oyikrwoth.”

Hello, my name is Odipio Jamba, 47 years old and a father to 9 children. I work as the catechist for the Anglican Church in kidyairi. When I was posted to this church, I realized that there are many Christians who were not coming to church especially during Sundays. Many of them did that because they lacked access to the gospel truth. While others are as a result of health problems.

There was no clean and safe water for use in the church and the community at large. Women could move long distances in search of clean and safe water for use in the church and at home.
The Lack of access to clean and safe water for the community has led to decline in the number of people attending church service. In our door to door ministry, I learnt that sickness like typhoid, stomach ache, diarrhea among others were very commonly in the communities which has greatly kept many people from coming to holy word of God. The Christians spent allot of money to treat their sick ones in the communities.

Since the spring was protected by feat Africa, I have seen a great change in the lives the Christians and the community at large.
“The number of Christians attending church services and other programs has improved greatly now, the cases of illnesses like typhoid has reduced now. People are able to now pay school fees for their children and even support the church financially now. Says Jamba”.

As the church of Kidyairi, we now praise the almighty God’s name for answering our prayers for clean water in the community of kidyairi village.
“Thank you feat Africa for the support to our church and community, may God bless you and continue to support our people. Says Jamba”

Hello, my name is Obedling Collins, 49 years old and a father to 9 children. I am working as the pastor for the Full Gospel Church in Pakwach. The church has existed for 25 years now. The Christians in the village don’t have clean source of water. Most times the Christians missed church services due to the health challenges that affected them through the water. The most common sickness that has been affecting people here has been typhoid.

We spent allot of money in treating the sick ones in the families. Mostly times the children are the most affected with typhoid and diarrhea due to the dirty water that they drink.
I decided to get the bio sand filter because of the common infections that my family suffered from as a result of drinking dirty and unprotected water. Since I started drinking from the bio sand filter, the infection rate for typhoid has greatly reduced in my family.

I encourage the Christians to get the bio sand filters to reduce on the rate of water borne disease infections in the community. This project has also helped me to preach the gospel to many more people during the sensitization exercise as I worked as a community health agent in my area during the implementation of the project.

During the bio sand filter project, many people accepted Christ as their savior.
As the church of Full Gospel, we now praise the almighty God’s name for answering our prayers for clean water in the community.
“Thank you feat Africa for the support to our church and community, may God bless you and continue to support our people. Says Collins”

Hello, my name is Ititu Ileli, 37 years old, a peasant farmer. I have 9 children. I live with my husband and the children. I and my children collect water from the spring.  We suffered from water infections for years.  At the water point, we spend hours before collecting water when people are many or it’s dirty. During dry seasons, women Fight and quarrel very at the water point over water, domestic violence was very common in homes.

We drink from the same spring with animals like, pigs, cows and other animals. During rain, rain water flows all into the spring, infecting it more.

Most times the water smells due to the contamination from the tree lives.  This has led to the spread of water borne illness like diarrhea, typhoid, stomach ache etc.

“We spend over 40,000 shillings to pay for medical bills in the health facility when one gets admitted. We don’t have money but we sell some of our animals, food items and borrow money to pay the bills, says Ileli”.

In line to the high rate of infections, we spend most of our resources on treatment of the sick ones and this has made us not to pay fees for our children in time, dress them, and feed them well and even developing our families.

From the time when our spring was protected by feat Africa, we no longer take long at the spring, no fights, quarrels, and we no longer suffer from illnesses like typhoid, diarrhea stomach ache, skin rushes etc. and we spend less time at the water point. We now pay our children in school, feed them and dress well now.

“Thank you feat Africa for the support and Joy you have set for us, God Bless you, says Ititu.”

Hi, my name is Teite Zaneta, 22 years old and a mother to 3 children. 2 boys and a girl. We have been drinking this spring for many years now. The water smells some times and is dirty.
We spend about 30 minutes before collecting water when people are many. This led to quarrels at the water point and also increased violence against women in some homes. When it rains, rain water carries human waste and animal waste all into the spring, infecting it more. We also shared the spring with cattle and pigs from the homesteads around the spring.

Due to the unclean water used, people are infected with water borne diseases like typhoid, diarrhea, and stomach ache. Water warms which caused allot of problems to our health are everywhere.
“We spend about 80,000 shillings to pay medical bills in the health facility when one gets admitted. We sell our animals, food items to pay the bills, says Zaneta”. We can’t pay fees for our children in time, dress them, feed them well and even developing our families.

Hello, my name is Ngota Indani, 33 years old and a father to 3 children. I work as the pastor for the Anglican Church in Amorio.

From this church, there used to be many people who miss church service due to the time wasted in such for clean sources of for domestic use. Others miss because of having health problems related to water borne and other health factors that affect them and makes them to miss serving the almighty God.
Sicknesses like typhoid, skin rushes, diarrhea etc. were very common in the community. But since the protection of Amorio spring, the number of people attending church service increased and the rate of infections has reduced.

The projected has helped me reach with the gospel of Christ to many people who didn’t get access to the word of God in my community of Amorio.
“Many Christians are now happy and regularly attend church services, says Indani.”
As the church of Amorio, we now praise the almighty God’s name for answering our prayers for clean water in the community of Amorio village.

“Thank you feat Africa for the support to our church and community, may God bless you and continue to support our people. Says Indani”

Hi, My name is Adia Odu’, 45 years old and a mother to 5 children. We have been drinking this spring for many years now, my children collects the water most times due to my health not being ok but generally the water is dirty. It smells some times when poured in the pot and stays more than three days.

We spend about 20 minutes before collecting water when people are many. This led to fights and quarrel at the water point and also increased violence against women in some homes. When it rains, rain water carries human waste and animals all into the spring, infecting it more.
Due to the unclean water used, people have are infected with water borne diseases like typhoid, diarrhea, and stomach ache. Water warms which caused allot of problems to our health are everywhere.

“We spend about 75000 shillings to medical bills in the health facility when one gets admitted. We sell our animals, food items and sometimes borrow loans to pay the bills, says Adia”. We can’t pay fees for our children in time, dress them, feed them well and even developing our families.
Since the protection of the spring by feat Africa, we have seen a great change in our lives, we have not experienced any water borne infections like typhoid, among others, we now pay fees for our children in time, we have money saved for developing our homes through infrastructure like houses, dressing, feeding the family well and we live a healthy life now.
According to Adia, “we now spend less time at the spring, and it has stopped violence in homes and women no longer fight at the spring”

Thank you feat Africa for the support rendered to us, may God bless you and continue to support other communities.