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SWAZILAND, AFRICA

A charity established in 2006, registered in

Canada, the United States, Taiwan and

Swaziland. It focuses on:

Hunger Orphans Poverty Education

Heart for Africa works, in partnership with

other groups having similar objectives, to

deliver quality care, shelter, food, water,

clothing, health care, and education to

orphaned and vulnerable children.

www.heartforafrica.org

A charity established in 2006, registered in

Canada, the United States, Taiwan and

Swaziland. It focuses on:

Hunger Orphans Poverty Education

Heart for Africa works, in partnership with

other groups having similar objectives, to

deliver quality care, shelter, food, water,

clothing, health care, and education to

orphaned and vulnerable children.

www.heartforafrica.org

• Project Canaan stimulates local economic growth & supports orphaned/abandoned children

• 148 children living at Project Canaan and 250 people employed

• Over 3,000 children in Swaziland receive meals thru 31 feeding stations

• Irrigation Dam funded by Rotary Global Grant • Swaziland plagued by the severe draught last

18 months • Almost normal rainy season ending March 31 • Reservoir of dam ¾ full, will help production

of crops

Project Canaa

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The dam was built at “Project Canaan” – a farm, training centre & children’s home in Swaziland owned & operated by the charity Heart for Africa

Project Canaan – 1,000 hectares

Project Canaan, Sept., 2012, showing reservoirs of Dams #1 and #2,

and irrigated fields

Dam #3 -- construction, Oct. 1, 2014

Dam #3 -- construction: Oct. 31, 2014

Dam #3 --“The Living Water Dam” Official Opening held on Dec. 6, 2014

50 feet high, 400 feet wide, and 600 feet thick at the base, the dam enabled an almost 4-fold expansion of Project Canaan’s irrigated area.

Dam #3 --“The Living Water Dam” and its Reservoir

Satellite image, 2015

Official opening of the Rotary-financed

“Living Water Dam”: Project Canaan