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Make Water For Tanzania your VBS 2025 Project!
Provide clean water to rural communities in Tanzania
Everything you need to include a Missions station at your VBS! Includes an informational brochure, a fundraising poster, stickers and more to get you started.
Plus, download a FREE Leader Guide with five daily activities, lesson plans, videos, activities, and stories of real-life kids in Tanzania whose lives were changed by sustainable water.
This kit is included in all 2025 VBS Starter Kits.
Order Kickstarter Mission Kit + Digital
Tanzania needs Jesus.
In many Tanzanian communities, cultural practices such as witchcraft foster fear and division, particularly impacting vulnerable children and families. Through our ministry, we bring the hope of Jesus Christ, and help families replace harmful traditions with a foundation of love, unity, and faith.
Communities need clean water
Kids in rural Tanzania typically get their bathing and drinking water from hand-dug wells in river beds shared with animals. It’s full of mud, bacteria and parasites, causing severe illnesses and even death. Children and women are sent to collect this water, carrying buckets up to 50 lbs for miles and miles each day. Kids often miss out on time learning at school because they are collecting water, preventing them from the very education that can provide hope for their communities.
Families need support and restoration
Our mission restores families by addressing root causes of division through clean water, spiritual guidance, Christ-centered trauma healing, and economic empowerment. Through an entrepreneurial program, we train women in local communities to make and sell handmade liquid and bar soap, creating sustainable income and stability for their families.
2.1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe water at home (WHO)
Women and children in the developing world walk an average of 3.7 miles (6km) per day to collect water (USAID)
Nearly 570 million children lack access to basic drinking water at school (UNICEF)
Complete 10 new solar-powered wells
$15,000 = 1 New Solar Powered Well
For $15,000, the Mighty Men Drillers can drill a solar powered well that provides clean water to a village of an average of 1,000 people. Your contribution can help make that goal a reality, providing thousands of children with safe drinking water and the opportunity to get an education.
In 2019, VBS programs at churches around the country joined together to raise over $132,000 to impact more than 12,000 people in Tanzania.
We're in This Together
To help Empowering Lives International meet their goals for 2024, Concordia Supply is committed to doubling your impact by matching all donations raised through this campaign.
Meet the Mighty Men Drilling Company
Empowering Lives Int'l (ELI) has brought real hope to thousands through drilling wells in Tanzania. ELI partners with Mighty Men Drilling Company. The name "Mighty Men" was inspired by David's Mighty Men in 2 Samuel 23 and was started by the staff of ELI Tanzania. ELI does not give hand outs but motivates the community to join together and contribute financially to their own well. Each is taken through a process which can take up to 12 months. The community forms a water committee and contributes toward the construction of their well, creating a sense of empowerment and ownership (most people in these communities live on less than $1/day.)
Easy Fundraising in 3 Steps:
Step 1: Make Water for Tanzania your VBS 2024 Project!
Order the Water For Tanzania Project Pack, and download the FREE Digital Resources for daily scripts, printable posters, and videos for your mission station.
Step 2: Collect Change at your VBS
Get a big bucket from your local hardware store and place a Water for Tanzania sticker (provided in the Project Pack!) on the bucket. Your kids can collect funds in the same bucket that Tanzanian kids collect water!
Step 3: Send Donations
Submit your donations to Empowering Lives International:
ELI Headquarters
ATTN: Water for Tanzania
PO Box 67
Upland, CA 91785
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Access FREE leader materials, printable posters, and videos for your mission station below:
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