More than 620 boys at the Marist Brothers Primary School Mulivai in Samoa are pleased to be using their new drinking water system thanks to support received from Australian Marist Solidarity and its donors.
The new system includes two new sets of concrete and tiled drinking fountains, each with eight outlets.
It also includes the installation of two new 10,000-litre rainwater tanks, including pumps and secure fencing. A third 10,000-litre tank is also being installed near the science, library and art building.
It replaces an outdated system that provided only 10 bubblers, which all flowed with water when just one tap was turned on. This caused the area to be continuously wet, unsafe and very unhygienic. And the water it wasted was costing the school a lot of money.
Acting Vice Principal, Brother Christopher Maney—who has recently returned to New Zealand—approached Marist Solidarity for support to replace the old system last October.
Thanks to our Australian donors, especially the school community of Marist College Kogarah, we have been able to respond to this request.
Brother Christopher reports that work to install the new system has now been completed and is happily being used by students.
He says that credit must be given to the school’s bursar, Theresa Ulberg, for being the driving force behind this project, and the school’s maintenance workers, who were paid additional wages for undertaking the work outside normal working hours and on weekends.
Brother Christopher has expressed his deep gratitude to the Marist Solidarity team for supporting this project and for making the school’s vision of a new, healthy and sustainable drinking water system a reality.
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