LIV Durban’s mission, purpose and passion are to place vulnerable, parentless children into a family environment where they receive unconditional love, spiritual discipleship, care and nurturing and where all their physical needs are taken care of.
One of the most critical physical needs is to have clean drinking water. LIV Durban is executing a project with the main goal of supplying affordable, clean, and reliable drinking water as part of the journey towards building sustainable villages.
Why a Borehole Project?
For 6 weeks after the 2022 floods, LIV Durban was without water. This put a focus on the importance of having a reliable source of drinking water. The biggest impact that this project will have, however, is on relieving the financial pressure that our monthly utility bill is putting on LIV Durban’s finances.
Project Status
In November 2022 the Masimong Foundation sponsored the drilling of our borehole on the LIV Durban site. By God’s grace, we found 3 times more water than what we currently need by only drilling one hole. We tested the water and found that purification is needed to make it suitable to drink.
This didn’t stop us from believing that our initial dreams were possible. Through another sponsorship by the Masimong Foundation, LIV Durban installed the pumps, pipes, and tanks necessary to supply the Foster homes, Owethu clinic, Community skills and Training center, LIV school, and all other activities at LIV Durban, with water.
Completing this project
Now that we are able to pump and store the water on our site, all that is needed is to purify the water. A Reverse Osmosis treatment plant is needed to remove the impurities, to make the water safe to drink. The cost to procure, install and commission this plant is R2 million. The specifications and benefits of this project are as follows:
- Borehole yield: 6 300 litres per hour
- Purification plant capacity (feed flow rate): 7 000 litre per hour
- Cost: R2 million
- Lifetime savings: R32 million
Give
To contribute towards this project, South African donors can make a payment to the following bank account or by clicking the following link. Please use Water + Your name as a reference:
Account Name: Lungisisa Indlela Village NPC
Bank: First National Bank
Branch: Umhlanga Crescent
Branch Code: 220629
Account Number: 6242 0878 946
Swift Code: FIRNZAJJ
International donors can make payments by clicking on the links here for UK donors, here for US donors or here Canadian donors. Please use water + your name as a reference.
For more information on the project, click on the links below:
Or contact Werner on:
Cell: +27 84 494 3101
Email: werner.louwrens@liv-village.com
