Water@Work: Providing Clean Water in the Dominican Republic
Water@Work: Providing Clean Water in the Dominican Republic

Project Information
Implementing community based water purification systems to impoverished communities
Describe the need affecting community
How will this Advance project help to address the need?
This Advance project will further our efforts to create sustainable businesses in water purification and distribution through the local churches of the Dominican Republic. Each of our water plants is designed to become a sustainable, profitable, small business within itself, thereby improving the health of the people by providing clean, safe water at a reduced price. This will dramatically improve access to clean, safe water for impoverished communities. Also, by having a profitable business the local church is able to apply the profits to programs to reach their own community, and beyond, with the gospel of Jesus Christ. The water businesses also provide employment and spin-off businesses can be generated such as the formulation and sale of detergents and cleaning products.
Describe the primary goal of the project
The primary goal of the project is to bring transformational healing to rural communities of the Dominican Republic where over 1,000,000 people lack access to affordable clean water. This transformational effort is intended to make clean, safe water available in over 1,000 communities. This will be accomplished through the establishment of sustainable businesses in water purification and distribution through the local churches at strategic locations across the country to reach the rural and peri-urban populations. Access will be improved by offering the water at below market prices and maximizing the reach of a water distribution network.
Describe the change you would like to see in the community as a result of this Advance project
People without access to clean, safe water will be served. The local church will have increased importance to their surrounding communities. Church attendance, membership and baptisms will all increase. The gospel of Jesus Christ will spread as the local church increases its witness through evangelism programs, Bible studies, discipleship groups, and additional preaching points, chapels and house churches in the rural and peri-urban areas. This project will, over ten years, impact and transform the lives of over 1,000,000 people in desperate need for both clean, safe water and the Living water. The gospel of Jesus Christ and good health will reach not only the people currently in need, but future generations also because of the sustainability aspect of the Water@Work economic model.