Walking through the heart of the Black Valley for rural Tanzanian poor

KOSTAL employees are going the distance yet again for the poor of rural Tanzania.

Just this year employees of the Abbeyfeale and Mallow plants helped Listowel colleague Billy Keane and his father Willie install a vital water network linking more than 20 communities in the country.

Billy visited the project just last month with brothers Dan and Paddy, Seamus Heffernan, Michael Herlihy and Des Martin as well as Willie (who initiated this link with the Medical Missionaries of Mary many years ago and whose tireless fundraising has seen a hospital and school built) .

And now, as he thanked all his colleagues on such a successful project he also launches the details of a new fundraising trek through the Black Valley under his charity’s new name Uisce4Africa.

You can donate via www.gofundme.com/uisce4africa2017.

“About 50 to 60 of us will be trekking through the Black Valley on Saturday, June 10, now as we raise money for the next project which will see us installing a water-collecting system in Nangwa, an even more remote area than the last project - this is about saving lives by providing clean drinking and bathing water.

It makes an incredible difference to the lives of the people in rural Tanzania which we all saw first hand earlier in the year on our visit.”

If you’d like to take part in the walk simply ring Billy on (087)6971826.

Billy Keane (front, right) with fellow Kostal staff in Abbeyfeale as he thanked them for their massive help in providing vital water for Tanzanian communities.