The Kasiki Project

In America, safe tap water is available to almost everyone--yet we spend billions on bottled water, consuming energy and creating plastic waste.

In East Africa, and elsewhere, lack of access to clean water is a major health problem and an impediment to overcoming poverty. There is a great need for small, community water projects; they prevent water-borne diseases and bring access to water near to where people live, thus improving public health and eliminating the burden for women and children of carrying water long distances.

The Kasiki Project offers a simple way to help. Just drink tap water instead of bottled water, and donate the money you save to the Kasiki Project.

We'll use the money through Church World Service, and other organizations, to fund community water projects that are environmentally sustainable. Also, we'll provide you with a cool Kasiki Water Jar label to put on your own water bottle.

You can save money, save lives, help save the planet, and make a fashion statement at the same time. Please join us in this effort.

We have created a label that you can put on the outside of your reusable water bottle. We'll send you a label for every $20 donation. Click here to see the label.

Kasiki is a Kiswahili (East African) word for an earthen water container and for a communion cup. When you drink from your Kasiki Water Jar, you connect with people in communities around the world. Praise God!

The artwork of the women drawing water is from a mural painted on the classroom wall at the Farming Systems Kenya office in Nakuru, a partner of Church World Service (CWS), through which donations will go to work.

The photograph on the label is of a women filling a water container from an access point on the Masongoleni project in southern Kenya. Projects like it are providing clean water nearer to where people live, saving women and girls hours each day carrying water, and saving lives by reducing water-borne disease in communities.

For safety, wash your Kasiki water jar often. And tell your friends to donate and get their own Kasiki label.

The money we raise through The Kasiski Project will be distributed through Church World Service (CWS), and selected water development organizations, to support community water projects.

The Kasiki Project is part of the Foothills CROP Hunger Walk in Littleton, Colorado, USA, and is run by volunteers. All overhead costs have been donated. Your donation is tax deductible. For each $20 donation, we will mail you a Kasiki label to attach to your own water bottle. Please donate here or mail donations to:

The Kasiki Project
c/o Foothills CROP Hunger Walk
12339 W. Burgundy Ave.
Littleton, CO 80127

As of March, 2009 (before web site launch) we have raised and distributed $300 to Water for People , and $1,280 to the CWS East Africa office for water projects. Here is one of the CWS water projects we visited in Kenya and our blog from that trip.

The Kasiki Project was started by Peter Boddie, a hydrologist by profession, and a volunteer for the Foothills CROP Hunger Walk and Church World Service (CWS). He came up with the idea for the Kasiki label after reading news articles about bottled water and after visiting water projects in Kenya.

The projects he visited were developed by communities in partnership with CWS using funds collected through the Foothills CROP Hunger Walk and the nearly 2,000 other CROP Hunger Walks that occur in the USA annually. Here is one of the CWS water projects he visited in Kenya and a (unfinished) blog from one visit to Kenya.

As we develop this web site, we will add content about many other water projects, other organizations and information about various water subjects.

You can email us at info@kasiki.org.

As of March, 2009 (before web site launch) we have raised and distributed $300 to Water for People , and $1,280 to the CWS East Africa office for water projects.


		Home The Label Donations About Us In America, safe tap water is available to almost everyone--yet we spend billions on bottled water, consuming energy and creating plastic waste. In East Africa, and elsewhere, lack of access to clean water is a major health problem and an impediment to overcoming poverty. There is a great need for small, community water projects; they prevent water-borne diseases and bring access to water near to where people live, thus improving public health and eliminating the burden for women and children of carrying water long distances. The Kasiki Project offers a simple way to help. Just drink tap water instead of bottled water, and donate the money you save to the Kasiki Project. We'll use the money through Church World Service, and other organizations, to fund community water projects that are environmentally sustainable. Also, we'll provide you with a cool Kasiki Water Jar label to put on your own water bottle. You can save money, save lives, help save the planet, and make a fashion statement at the same time. Please join us in this effort. We have created a label that you can put on the outside of your reusable water bottle. We'll send you a label for every $20 donation. Click here to see the label. Kasiki is a Kiswahili (East African) word for an earthen water container and for a communion cup. When you drink from your Kasiki Water Jar, you connect with people in communities around the world. Praise God! The artwork of the women drawing water is from a mural painted on the classroom wall at the Farming Systems Kenya office in Nakuru, a partner of Church World Service (CWS), through which donations will go to work. The photograph on the label is of a women filling a water container from an access point on the Masongoleni project in southern Kenya. Projects like it are providing clean water nearer to where people live, saving women and girls hours each day carrying water, and saving lives by reducing water-borne disease in communities. For safety, wash your Kasiki water jar often. And tell your friends to donate and get their own Kasiki label. The money we raise through The Kasiski Project will be distributed through Church World Service (CWS), and selected water development organizations, to support community water projects. The Kasiki Project is part of the Foothills CROP Hunger Walk in Littleton, Colorado, USA, and is run by volunteers. All overhead costs have been donated. Your donation is tax deductible. For each $20 donation, we will mail you a Kasiki label to attach to your own water bottle. Please donate here or mail donations to: The Kasiki Project c/o Foothills CROP Hunger Walk 12339 W. Burgundy Ave. Littleton, CO 80127 As of March, 2009 (before web site launch) we have raised and distributed $300 to Water for People , and $1,280 to the CWS East Africa office for water projects. Here is one of the CWS water projects we visited in Kenya and our blog from that trip. The Kasiki Project was started by Peter Boddie, a hydrologist by profession, and a volunteer for the Foothills CROP Hunger Walk and Church World Service (CWS). He came up with the idea for the Kasiki label after reading news articles about bottled water and after visiting water projects in Kenya. The projects he visited were developed by communities in partnership with CWS using funds collected through the Foothills CROP Hunger Walk and the nearly 2,000 other CROP Hunger Walks that occur in the USA annually. Here is one of the CWS water projects he visited in Kenya and a (unfinished) blog from one visit to Kenya. As we develop this web site, we will add content about many other water projects, other organizations and information about various water subjects. You can email us at info@kasiki.org. As of March, 2009 (before web site launch) we have raised and distributed $300 to Water for People , and $1,280 to the CWS East Africa office for water projects.