We’re going back!
It is hard to believe that a year has passed since we sent the first team to Toloha Village. All we knew at that point was the villagers needed water and we wanted to help! God has done A LOT in just a year. We now have definite plans to pipe water in from a mountain stream with a budget of ~$170,000. We held a fundraising banquet and auction in November raising $35,000. In March we held our 2nd annual Water Walk and had over 150 participants from across the community raising $28,000! We’ve seen many individuals both young and old be moved by the story of Toloha. People across this community...
Read MoreThe Wait is OVER!!!
Bringing clean water to Toloha has proven to be a test of patience for all parties involved. Toloha Partnership has been actively seeking to bring clean water to Toloha for over 2 years, Daniel has been working in the U.S. to accomplish this for over 10 years and some of the villagers of Toloha have been waiting their entire lives. The wait is now over! The hard labor is about to begin. A “lorry” (a.k.a. a delivery truck) carrying 2 km (1.24 miles) of pipe is on its way to Toloha as I am writing this. I cannot express the emotions that our board, Daniel or the people of Toloha are feeling...
Read MoreWater Walk Success!
The 2nd Annual Toloha Water Walk was held last Saturday March 22nd at the Neuseway Nature Center in downtown Kinston, NC, and it was certainly a success! So why am I just now sitting down to write a blog post? Why have I waited to so long? To be honest, I have been at a loss for words — and if you know me, that doesn’t happen very often! So what did the day look like? Of course, pictures speak louder than words, so enjoy these photos and a brief narrative of the day! By the time the sun peeked over the horizon at 7:11 am, there were already a dozen volunteers working to set up,...
Read MoreWater Walk Tools
We are less than one month from the Toloha Water Walk! We are getting the word out about it – we have a Facebook Event (please get on and check it out here), we have yard signs and flyers posted around town, we have magnets for our cars, we’ve been to churches and schools and today we put up 4 large banners at high traffic areas in Kinston. It’s happening! Right now, we are halfway to our goal of 100 walkers and we have raised $6,052!!! Wow! If you haven’t registered for the Toloha Water Walk yet, please take five minutes and register right now! Go to:...
Read MoreWater Walk Rep Meeting
Hey Y’all, We are SO excited about our next big fundraising and awareness event, the 2014 Water Walk coming up on March 22nd, 2014! We had so much fun doing it at Erasing the Lines last year we decided to do it again! But this time, we are making it a community wide event as well as a fundraiser. Over the past few months God has continued to move things along and we in the process of ordering the first segment of pipe! In faith, we have decided to begin the project with only $40,000 in the bank of the total $170,000 needed. That’s where you, our blog readers, come in! We are...
Read MoreWhy Not a Well?
Why not a Well?Many people have asked us why we are not choosing to drill a well in Toloha to meet the villager’s need for clean water. So we say, “actually, boreholes have been drilled, but a well is just not possible in Toloha.” World Bank has drilled three boreholes, but all three were unsuccessful. Two were dry and the other was unfit for human consumption. There are 5,000 people who need water in Toloha, which would mean drilling several more boreholes and still only meeting the existing need and not considering population growth. Believe it or not, Toloha IS a growing community even...
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