Club Speaker - Tineka Bentley Tanzania

Mon, Jun 12th 2017 at 7:15 pm - 8:15 pm

Club Speaker - Tineka Bentley Water for Life in Tanzania

The Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Club Speaker - Tineka Bentley
Water for Life.

Mon 12th June club speaker Tineka visited the club and gave a talk about the Charity Water for Life.
The Diocese of Leeds links with Northern Tanzania in three Diocese Mara, Rorya and Tarime.

The links are church to church, school to school, diocese to diocese, and person to person in friendship and prayer. There have been many visits in both directions. 80 parishes within West Yorkshire and the
Dales pray for their link church every Sunday. Schools and parishes exchange letters and photos and learn about each other. Health, agricultural, educational, social and clergy training initiatives are supported
Tineka explained the three Dioceses had different problems and how they varied the water collection methods.
Launched in 2008, Water for Life has raised £119,000 so far (Spring 2016) to provide clean water and health education to thousands of people in the link dioceses. Two water technicians have been trained to install pumps in hand dug wells and six people trained to run health education workshops.They have worked together with 40 villages to establish community ownership and hold health education workshops. Together they have installed 15 shallow well pumps, plus 2 boreholes and 14 water harvesting systems.
Luddite Rotarian Jeremy Parkinson on behalf of the club thanked Tineka for her visit.