NEWS

JUNE 20, 07
CBC Television coverage of the walk for water.
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JUNE 19, 07
CBC radio coverage of The Water Project.
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Our Business Plan (draft)
A steering committee has been formed to help make Queen Victoria's
well in Tanzania a reality.
The first draft of the plan is now available. Click here for the PDF document.

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The project is now accepting donations via Paypal. All donations will be through the Vancouver School Board and donations over $50 will receive a tax receipt.

Wishing well: queen victoria's water project

Queen Victoria kids are doing something extraordinary: They are raising money to help their Pen Pal friends build a water well in Tanzania.

Queen Victoria School, a small inner-city elementary school on Vancouver's east side, recently completed an extensive, school-wide, interdisciplinary study of water.   An original musical play about water, written by the children with the help of teachers and artists in residence, came next.  The play was a major success and proved to be a catalyst that made the children aware of issues surrounding water on a global level.

As a result of this process, the idea of raising funds to help build a well in Africa was born.  Contact with Moshi Changai, a Tanzanian who agreed to manage the project, was established through one of our Queen Victoria families.  Pen pals and a sister village relationship between the Queen Victoria community and the village of Sori, Tanzania were established with Moshi’s help. 

The Queen Victoria school community has embraced an ambitious goal: to raise $25,000.00 to build a well in the district of Kondoa, Tanzania.

There are 4 phases to this project: 
 
PHASE 1 is to do water surveys, and with the help of villagers, decide on the location of the new water well. 

PHASE 2 is the actual drilling of the borehole and dig the well.

PHASE 3 is installing the pump and building the water pump infrastructure.   The community in Tanzania will be actively contributing to the completion of this third phase.

PHASE 4 is education and maintenance of the well/pump and helping develop this project into a self-sustaining venture.

The reason Queen Victoria is doing this project is to teach kids to be socially aware and compassionate.  This project is giving children a chance to use their voice to make positive changes within their own communities and the world at large.  It teaches them to broaden their understanding of world issues, cultures and create a sense of global community. 

Already a considerable amount of money has been raised.  Proceeds from ticket sales for the play have been set aside for the well.  Students from Charles Dickens School, who attended the play, were moved to initiate fundraising in their community for the well.  A Queen Victoria family who, coincidentally happens to be moving to Tanzania, held a silent auction of many of their household items, and donated the proceeds to the well.

Queen Victoria children are actively involved in the process of raising money for this project.  We will update the events section of the project’s site with future school based initiatives. Resources in our small community are limited and its involvement is symbolic as we hope that our story will inspire others, including the corporate community to help.

FOR MORE DETAILS CLICK HERE to read the PDF Planning Document.

http://www.waterforpeople.org/
http://www.wateraid.org/
http://www.ewb.ca/en/index.html

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Moshi

Moshi R.Changai was born in Kondoa, Tanzania and is our liaison to Africa.

For more information about the water project CONTACT US.