Children in rural communities of South Africa know that water is for drinking, washing clothes, cooking, and watering gardens. Too many, however, don’t know why they should only drink from a safe water source and how to use clean water in other ways to stay healthy.
Ernest Sello is 38 and lives with his wife and child in a corrugated iron house in Badirile, a poor, peri-urban community about an hour west of Johannesburg. His neighbor, Rasta Joe, is 41 and lives with his girlfriend. Recently both men became "Pump Minders," trained and equipped by Water For All to handle minor repairs of their community’s new Sun Pump.
The hour-long journey from Johannesburg to Modderspruit Village takes you across the high wall of Hartbeespoort Dam, a reservoir built in the early 1920s to provide irrigation to the surrounding farmlands.
Water For All is very excited to share our new video, which showcases the impact of our innovative water technologies in the lives of children and their families. Watch it now and share it with others!
Special thanks to Chris Green, Peter Oyamo and Frimmel Smith for their contributions to our video.
World Cup in South Africa. Football fever worldwide. At Water For All we enjoyed the games, the excitement and even the vuvuzelas reverberating around the country. And in the midst of it all, we celebrated the opening of a new Sun Pump, a legacy gift of the 2010 International Coca-Cola Football Camp.
As part The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation's "Replenish Africa Initiative" (RAIN), a Water For All Sun Pump was donated to Badirile Village, Gauteng Province (near Randfontein). Students from the nearby Ithuteng Secondary School were selected by the company to attend the football camp along with more than 225 young, aspiring football players from 19 countries.
