Matabete -- another Tanzanian water project
Your response to our partnership's plan to provide water to the village of Mahove was generous and encouraging this summer. We are grateful, our partners are encouraged, and step by step, the project is moving forward.
It seems like a good time to share some information about an organization that is working throughout the Iringa Diocese to bring water and sanitation systems to many villages.
St Paul Partners is a nonprofit organization that formed as an outgrowth of partnerships like the one our congregation has with Tungamalenga Parish. Their vision is to assist and enable the Tanzanian people to obtain universal access to safe water, community by community. Since the group's beginnings a few years ago, they have drilled more than 100 wells.
St Paul Partners has invited us to their annual Fall Celebration on Saturday, October 1st, an event to be held at St Mark's Lutheran Church in North St Paul from 4:30 to 8 PM. The event is free, a Tanzanian meal will be served, free will donations will be accepted.
The guest of honor at the event is Faraja Kimetu Kurabei, born and raised in the Maasai village of Matebete in northern Tanzania. Faraja is a graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead, and she is currently pursuing an MBA degree. She will talk about the need for water in her home village, and she will also provide a Tanzanian perspective on how to promote village buy-in and involvement in sustainable water projects.
Members of the St Paul Partners board have been very helpful as advisors on our Mahove water project. If you want to do more to help bring clean water to villages in Tanzania, please check them out!
It seems like a good time to share some information about an organization that is working throughout the Iringa Diocese to bring water and sanitation systems to many villages.
St Paul Partners is a nonprofit organization that formed as an outgrowth of partnerships like the one our congregation has with Tungamalenga Parish. Their vision is to assist and enable the Tanzanian people to obtain universal access to safe water, community by community. Since the group's beginnings a few years ago, they have drilled more than 100 wells.
St Paul Partners has invited us to their annual Fall Celebration on Saturday, October 1st, an event to be held at St Mark's Lutheran Church in North St Paul from 4:30 to 8 PM. The event is free, a Tanzanian meal will be served, free will donations will be accepted.
The guest of honor at the event is Faraja Kimetu Kurabei, born and raised in the Maasai village of Matebete in northern Tanzania. Faraja is a graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead, and she is currently pursuing an MBA degree. She will talk about the need for water in her home village, and she will also provide a Tanzanian perspective on how to promote village buy-in and involvement in sustainable water projects.
Members of the St Paul Partners board have been very helpful as advisors on our Mahove water project. If you want to do more to help bring clean water to villages in Tanzania, please check them out!
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