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.”

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 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”

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.”

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.”