Meet Georgia Evans

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Georgia Evans a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Georgia, really happy you were able to join us today and we’re looking forward to sharing your story and insights with our readers. Let’s start with the heart of it all – purpose. How did you find your purpose?
I found my life purpose while traveling on a photo safari to Tanzania, Africa in 2016. Our group had plans to visit a remote Massai village and were told we could take a gift. So, while researching this concept I saw an online photo of women gathering water from a nasty looking pond. The water looked truly horrifying and gave me this thought, that sort of felt “other worldly.” This thought was to take clean water filters to these African people. So, I researched water filters, raised some money with a gofundme and had 2 large community size water filters plus 50 individual filters, shipped to meet me at my hotel in Tanzania.
The reception I received from the chief and his people was nothing short of amazing. They clearly needed and wanted clean, safe drinking water for their village. I received such heartwarming thanks upon leaving that I knew this day had changed my life.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I am Georgia Evans, and I am the founder of Village Care Project. This is a non-profit set up after two trips to visit remote 5 African tribes in Tanzania, Africa. These trips were a life altering experience for me. I researched vendors and found local guides who were very excited about being able to help their people. Then I found vendors for clean water filters and other tools that would give local tribes better health and improve their quality of life. The third trip also included three men who had volunteered to come assist me and help with fundraising.
The project has continued to grow and has become an annual event. We now are visiting 7 villages on each trip which amounts to helping approximately 1000 villagers per trip.

At Village Care Project we raise money and collect donations, buy, deliver, assemble & educate native villagers in Tanzania, Africa on how to obtain clean drinking water with their new water filters. Water really is life! However remote native villagers in developing countries rarely have the option to drink clean water. They gather their water from anywhere that they can find; puddles, streams, rivers, lakes and often times they even have to dig a hole and scoop water out. This dirty water is full of dangerous waterborne diseases like giardia, cholera, dysentery, e coli and more.

We focus on tools that improve health and quality of life and now distribute:
• Clean, safe drinking water filters (approved by WHO organization) to make drinking water safe and free of waterborne diseases that takes a deadly toll on villagers, especially children.
• Treated mosquito bed nets that prevent malaria and saves lives.
• Large heavy-duty tarps to insulate the roof of their mud thatch huts to keep villagers warm and dry during the monsoon rains.
• Waterproof, solar LED lanterns to give them the gift of light when the sun goes down! No batteries or electricity needed.

We are also growing our volunteer base and have 6 volunteers signed up to help with the next project in April 2024 in Tanzania.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
I am a retired school teacher and the skills I learned while teaching and coaching young people have been really helpful while developing this project. I love to teach people so that comes in really handy. If someone is just starting out it is easy to become overwhelmed. It is fine to start small and just add building blocks as you grow and learn. With time, you look back and think, wow, look at how much this project has grown.

Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?
Would love to collaborate with more businesses who would like to help sponsor or fundraise for this international project to help take it to the next level and help more villagers. In exchange they would get sponsor exposure on our website, links on social media, t shirts and other marketing materials.

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Image Credits
Photos by Jackson Mshana and Shannah Tours

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