THE Male Voice Choir and Pop Choir from Launceston will hold a concert in Bratton Clovelly Parish Hall on Saturday, May 13, to raise funds for Devon Aid Korogwe (DAK).

The latest DAK projects have provided three secondary schools in Korogwe, Tanzania, with storage tanks and a necessary installation to collect rainwater — this gives the students and staff water for drinking and washing hands.

Water related diseases have been reduced and the long distances they have to travel to attend school are easier without having to carry containers filled from polluted streams or rivers.

Much time and energy is taken for so many who walk anything from three, eight or nine kilometres to attend school each day, and then having the return journey home again.

The stored water facilities, provided by DAK, can help to enable some to stay overnight.

Chairman and founder of DAK, Vivien England, said: “Because so many have never before seen a tap they have to be trained how to use them and how not to waste such a valued commodity.

“There are many other schools and villages in great need of an easier access to clean, drinkable water. Women travel endlessly up and down mountainsides to collect their families daily water requirements in heavy, 20-litre buckets.”

DAK had also installed wells and pipelines into 52 villages in the Korogwe district.

To help raise funds for healthier water supplies for further villages and students Launceston Male Voice Choir and the Pop Choir will hold an evening concert in Bratton Clovelly Parish Hall on Saturday, May 13. All are welcome.

For more information about Devon Aid Korogwe (DAK) visit the website www.water4korogwe.com