An NGO Providing Clean Drinking Water

 

Waterlines International began its activities in Bomet around sixteen years ago with the single main objective of providing clean and safe water to the residents. The presence of this NGO in the county is attributed to Linda Golden, a former volunteer Peace Corp who taught at Longisa High School in the late 1990s. She mobilized fellow Peace Corps volunteers in the area at the time, and started teaching residents on rain harvesting and spring protection. They initially worked with women’s self-help groups but later started providing rainwater collection tanks for churches, health clinics, and schools.

According to one of the NGO’s facilitators, David Langat, they currently focus on projects that benefit a bigger population unlike before when individual owners benefitted. He said that they fund water projects especially for schools and dispensaries as well as springs that are communal.