Empower | Who we work with...

The work we do here at Empower, would be a lot harder without the partnerships and relationships we’ve built up with other fantastic organisations and charities. 

The Water Project (2015) are a ‘non-profit organization unlocking human potential by providing reliable water projects to communities in sub-Saharan Africa who suffer needlessly from a lack of access to clean water and proper sanitation.’

For over 7 years, they have helped communities gain access to clean, safe water by by providing training, expertise and financial support for water project construction through our staff and implementing partners.

We think this video is fantastic, and really urge you to take a few moments out of your day to learn more about who we are trying to help, and why.

"Remember, you can donate with one click of a button to empower African girls today, for a freer and happier tomorrow".

References:
The Water Project, (2015) 'Empower The Girl Child. Give Water.'. Available at http://thewaterproject.org/. Accessed on Web. 26 Nov. 2015.

Speaking to... Selph

Selph Ihungu Imalo - Arusha village, Tanzania

I first met Gabriella when she was working with an organisation helping to build schools in the community and she asked if I would speak to her about my life. She asked about why my daughter, Angel, was not in school but instead helping me to collect water for our household. I told her, in this community, the role of a female is seen to be in the kitchen, it is seen to provide for our family. 

Upon my daughter turning 10, she could no longer keep on attending school as her help was needed to collect water from the wells. I have collected water for my household for 37 years and it was becoming impossible to carry on. I am HIV positive and I was becoming increasingly more ill. My husband decided that it was no longer safe for me to carry on and that is when the responsibility fell on to my beloved girl, Angel.

Carrying the pots from the well is not easy. It is a 3 hour round trip and you have to take breaks. Every time she left the house each morning to start her journey to the well, I would say a prayer and would worry until she returned. Then she became unwell. She contracted cholera and began vomiting and had diarrhoea. It is impossible to have for girls and women in this community to have good hygiene. We walk long miles, we are dusty and dirty and there are no sufficient facilities. You become helpless when your child is sick. You don’t know what to do. Gabriella came back last year and told me she had started an organisation to help and empower girls and women, by starting projects to build wells closer to our homes. It was then that I told her my daughter had passed away a couple of months before.

I feel so much sorrow and so much guilt that my child has left this world and I am still here but I am now so thankful for the work Empower are doing in my community . Access to clean, safe water enables so many of our girls to start learning again. If one less young child dies because of a water related illness contracted through the collection of water from the wells, this village can become a little happier, and life can become a little easier, each day.

"Donate what you can and come on this journey with us, to empower these African girls today, for a freer and happier tomorrow."

Welcome to Empower.

Talk to any girl in Africa and she will tell you exactly what she wants.

She wants an education. She wants a career. She wants to make a contribution other than to the household.

She wants to be a teacher, a lawyer, a politician, a world leader.

A financially independent woman.

There’s something stopping these girls fulfilling their dreams. Fulfilling dreams that we take for granted.

Water.

Access to water.

Lack of access to safe water and sanitation is the primary reason girls drop out of school. African culture sees a women’s place as in the kitchen, looking after the family and collecting water for their household. In Sub Saharan African, 68% of the rural population spend more than 1 hour per trip of water collection making it impossible for girls to attend school.

Safe water unlocks a community’s girls to learn, to develop and to experience the life they want to lead.

Here at Empower, we need your help.

We need your help to give these girls the freedom to carry out their dreams and the only way to do this is with convenient access to safe and clean water.

Just £1 can make the difference.

Donate what you can and come on this journey with us, to empower these African girls today, for a freer and happier tomorrow.