<div>UPDATE: Great News - Water4Kids International has provided the name of the area where the funds for the well will be applied. Information from Water4Kids is as follows:
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<div><strong><em>BUKEDEA DISTRICT</em></strong>
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<div><em>The people of Bukedea District, known as the Iteso, speak the Ateso language and are traditionally pastoralists. Among Uganda’s poorest, they once migrated in search of greener pastures for their livestock. Today, many still live in remote villages with no access to safe water.</em>
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<div><em>Women, children, and young girls bear the heavy responsibility of collecting water, often walking 3-6 kilometers one way to contaminated sources. This time-consuming task prevents them from attending school, earning an income, or caring for their families. Worse, the long journeys put young girls at risk of physical harm and abuse, while women face domestic violence if they fail to return quickly. The water they collect carries deadly diseases like cholera, typhoid, and dysentery, forcing impoverished families to spend the little funds they have on medicine or face losing loved ones.</em>
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<div><em>Your generous donation will bring life-saving clean water to these communities, relieving thousands from suffering. By providing safe water, you are transforming lives, restoring health, and giving hope to so many. </em>
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<div>To anyone who knows Megan, it is no surprise that for her milestone birthday, she does not want anything for herself. Instead, she is asking for donations to raise money for a well to be drilled so that clean, accessible water can be made available for those in need. Megan's church, New Hope Church in Lorton, works closely with the organization Water4Kids International (Subgroup of Hope 4 Kids International) that raises money for these wells. When a village has access to safe water, restoration can truly start from the ground up. Laying the foundation of health and dignity while opening the door to education, safe and clean water becomes the catalyst that can transform an entire community.
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<div>Young girls whose responsibility it is to collect the family water spend their entire day walking for water—mostly dirty water that causes severe illness and too often death. Many of them are unable to go to school because their days are spent trekking for water. They are sacrificing their futures to survive the present. When their job is finally done fetching water, they are too exhausted to put energy into anything else. This creates a vicious cycle that greatly inhibits children’s educational enrichment, which in turn perpetuates the cycle of poverty. When everything stays the same, nothing can change. Water is the first crucial step in relieving this generational curse of poverty.
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