Students at Clearwater Central Catholic HS help bring clean drinking water to villages in Tanzania

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July 9, 2024 at 6:57 a.m.

This summer, six students from Clearwater Central Catholic High School embarked on a trip of a lifetime to Tanzania to fulfill a mission that had been years in the making—to bring fresh drinking water to villages in need. They were part of the local Clearwater non-profit organization Water 4 Mercy, a group that was first featured on ABC Action News in 2022. “In sub-Saharan Africa, we have about 320 million people that are in search of water to drink,” said Nermine Khouzam Rubin, who founded Water 4 Mercy in 2018. “Women and children who were walking hours and hours and hours in search of water, a lot of times it is infested.”

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