Students at the Metropolitan Learning Centre in Portland Built a School Well in Guinea
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July 1, 2009 – Students from the Metropolitan Learning Centre (MLC) in Portland, Oregon, financed the construction of a well at Wullia Laic Elementary School in Guinea. Jeff Creswell, a teacher at MLC, is the principle organizer of the school-based fundraisers which have generated over $5,000 for School-to-School health programs.
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The Wullia Laic well will not only provide clean drinking water for the school but also for the surrounding community.The community, especially the women, used to walk 3 to 5 kilometres to access water from a river. Drinking the river water posed a health risk to the community because it was exposed to microbes and contaminants.
With the new well, the Willia Laic community now has access to clean drinking water which has the potential to improve the health of the schoolchildren and the surrounding community.
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A mother and daughter collect clean water
from the new Wullia Laic well.
