{"id":1944,"date":"2020-11-24T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2020-11-24T21:17:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T21:17:49","slug":"joy-as-remote-turkana-village-gets-first-fresh-water-borehole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/joy-as-remote-turkana-village-gets-first-fresh-water-borehole\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy as remote Turkana village gets first fresh water borehole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 5,000 residents of Lobolo, a remote village in Turkana Central Sub-county, are breathing a sigh of relief after a US charity sunk a borehole that will provide them with a freshwater source, the first in the area that relies on Lake Turkana\u2019s saline waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sh1.2 million hand pump water project handed over to Lobolo Primary School will also serve locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maisha Project Founder, Beatrice Williamson, urged the school to work closely with the community to establish a structure for proper management of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/counties\/turkana\/joy-as-remote-turkana-village-gets-first-fresh-water-borehole-3208594\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 5,000 residents of Lobolo, a remote village in Turkana Central Sub-county, are breathing a sigh of relief after a US charity sunk a borehole that will provide them with a freshwater source, the first in the area that relies on Lake Turkana\u2019s saline waters. The Sh1.2 million hand pump water project handed over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maishaproject.org\/christmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}