Peace Island Community

Dear Sir, Thank you all from the entire community. Your timely intervention has eased a very critical situation for us. Water is life and we were suffering when the only well that gives any water through the dry season has gotten badly contaminated by something we know not what. Now with your help we have a good producing well that all can drink safely from. Words are not enough to express what this means to us. From our hearts to yours Rev Joseph Bannah

This Community is located behind the Nickley's Town Market turning left crossing a very deep swamp. It has a level sandy ground but the underground formation is a very hard sand stone thus making it impossible for wells to go more than 15 feet deep. It has a population of more than 2500 inhabitants. Peace Island Community is in need of safe drinking water because water fetched from other sources only have any yield during the rainy season as any hand dug wells in the area go dry before the middle of the dry season. By mid-February all the wells in the community dried up with the exception of the this one well that is now contaminated by an unknown substance and not good to drink from. t is in that spirit of saving lives that Lifewater through the request of the Leadership of the community. The Pastor of the God’s glory free Pentecostal church (Rev. Joseph Bannah) wrote our office for a quick intervention to save lives. We were able to come in quickly and put in this well for the Peace Island community. They spend nearly 3000 LD per week for mineral water and that amount is hard to get, especially for those who cannot afford to feed their family. Couple that with the hard economic situation our Liberia now, it is an impossible situation There are many problems in this village: like children out of school because of tuition and very little work to be found. The basic livelihood of the inhabitants is mostly from potatoes greens gardeners, fire coals sellers, and petty traders. With very few in the Government employed and even these have not been paid for months. The Workshop was conducted by the Health and Hygiene Team of Lifewater Liberia to teach and demonstrate to them the basic Hygiene practices that will lead them to a healthy life. There were 36(thirty-six) participants at the Workshop who represented the Peace Island Community dwellers. The participants on behalf of their colleagues and neighbors thanked God for the Lifewater family for level education and the new hand pump in their community for the very first time ever in the history of the community. This well was drilled as part of a cooperative NGO initiative to provide safe drinking water to all Liberian's. Thanks to ''The Last Well Inc.'' for their coordination and support!