About Our Partner

The Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA)

More than 50% of people in Kenya don’t have piped water, and it must be fetched, mainly by women and children in 20-liter cans. Some must travel many miles to obtain water, which means mothers are not home and children miss school. Disease is also common in areas where water is neither available nor clean.

The Outreach Foundation and the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA), along with local churches, have partnered to bring water to thirsty villages. Much of the work provides water tanks to families and boreholes to communities.

The drilling process involves a large rig and about $35,000. It requires a lot of preparation, government paperwork and it’s not always successful. The borehole is usually boy 200-300 M deep (about 700 feet). It requires power either solar or generator since most places like this one don’t have electricity. People fight and die over water and it is getting harder and harder to drill. The water table is going down every year.

In many situations, we work with the PCEA to install a gutter catchment system and a water tank at a PCEA church or school that will serve up to 30 families.

The Impact

In places where we have helped with water, either a water catchment system or a borehole, we see improvements in health. Children don’t miss school, and women are able to spend more time with their families and help provide for them by starting gardens and getting jobs.

The OPPORTUNITY

The Outreach Foundation is seeking gifts to support the mission and ministry of Clean Drinking Water in Kenya. All gifts of any size are welcomed to help provide gutters and tanks for each site.