Kenya (Kisumu)
Water Supply System Design
Shangilia Children's Home
EMI Project 5411
September 30 - October 7, 2006
Project Status Update
November 12, 2007
Construction of the Shangilia Children's Home Water Supply System was completed in February 2007.
Photos
Underground Storage Tank
Chorinator
Elevated Storage Tank
Rain Collection System
Shangilia Children's Home Family
Local Residents at Hillside Spring
Local Rural Community around Shangilia
Original Project Scope
The Shangilia Children’s Home near Kisumu on the shores of Lake Victoria cares for children by providing food, shelter, clothing, parental guidance and spiritual nourishment as well as health care to the local community. The ministry began in 2000 and moved to their present property in 2005 with 31 orphans.
Today there are 40 children living at Shangilia, a nine acre rural piece of lannd. Presently, water for the daily needs of the orphans is carried by buckets over a quarter mile away from an existing hillside springbox. The government has expressed an interest in a pipeline project to serve the orphanage and local community, but it could be years before action is undertaken.
EMI recently had a team of civil engineers in Ethiopia to design a water pipeline to traverse a much greater distance. The general feeling at the end of the trip expressed by the engineers was, “This is why we became civil engineers!” Come and join eMi for this water project, meeting the most fundamental human need for water, and be a part of a testimony bringing glory to the One who promise rivers of living water to all men.
Project Team
Sam Matthews - EMI Team Leader
Tim Tucker- Civil Engineer
Kevin Carnes- Civil Engineer
Tim Read- Mechanical Engineer
James Shamrell- EMI Engineering Intern
Joe Ziemann- EMI Engineering Intern
