Davenport West Students And Teacher Heading to Kenya Next Week
A group of four Davenport West students, led by their teacher, Mr. Greg Smith, are headed to the eastern Kenyan village of Muamba next week to implement a student-designed water filtration system that will help bring clean drinking water to an estimated over 22,000 people.
West students taking the engineering, design and development capstone class have worked on the project for roughly six years. Students finished the model for the fully functioning water filtration system last year. The one built in Kenya will be roughly five times the size of the school’s model, bringing clean drinking water to an estimated over 22,000 people.
The endeavor mixing engineering education and charitable action was made possible through an ongoing partnership between Davenport West High School and Fishers of Men Ministries Inc.
Fishers of Men is an international non-profit 501( c)(3) Christian missionary organization, headquartered in Davenport, that works to provide water wells, churches, schools, and homes for children and families throughout Kenya. Fishers of Men Ministries hopes to continue to build more water filtration systems for villages in need after the first one is completed.
