Aqua and Agriculture Initiative

Aqua and Agriculture Initiative

About 140 km east of Nairobi, the children of the local elementary school "Mulenyu Primary School" suffer enormously from climate change and severe drought. Therefore, the two students Amos Maranga Atima and Elias Shamala Muhatia founded the association "Aqua and Agriculture Initiative" in Kenya. They want to develop solutions for the local problems of water scarcity and insufficient water quality. The association "Bildung fördert Entwicklung" supports Amos and Elias not only through a scholarship, but also through the active transfer of knowledge (e.g. through an environmental internship of several months at the city of Trier under high professional expertise).  We were able to collect approximately €10,000 in donations for the project at Bazar International Luxembourg in 2019/2020. A fundraising campaign initiated with the Trierischer Volksfreund also generated additional funds, which enabled several water tanks, each with 15,000 liters, to be financed and erected. This will not only collect rainwater, but will also eliminate the long distances to wells with contaminated water. However, it is precisely here that there is still a need for action. The association is currently working on the construction of a water laboratory and water treatment systems in order to improve the water supply not only quantitatively but also qualitatively. Further information about the project "Aqua and Agriculture Initiative" can be found on the website here.