LifeStraw Give Back Program
Gold Standard · GS13044 · Kenya
About this project
The project is a Program of Activities consisting of Project Activities across communities and sites in Kenya. The project addresses the lack of safe drinking water in certain schools in Kenya and the resulting negative impacts on students’ health and learning. The projects will distribute, install, and service low greenhouse gases (GHG) emitting water purification systems at point-of-collection (POC) to provide safe drinking water (SDW) for institutional application at schools (mostly, primary and secondary schools; other educational institutions can be included). The water purification systems will reduce both the use of and demand for firewood and other fuels used to boil water for drinking, leading to a reduction and/or demand for carbon dioxide emissions. The project aims to provide water treatment to Schools in Kenya to address microbiological contamination and reduce the energy demand and respective carbon emissions from the population served by the project activity for whom the common practice of water treatment is or would have been water boiling. The project accounts for purified water consumed for drinking.
The record
- Project ID
- GS13044
- Registry
- Gold Standard
- Type
- Clean Water · Household & Community
- Removal or reduction
- Reduction
- Methodology
- GS Methodology for emission reductions from safe drinking water supply
- Developer
- SweetSense Inc. · 15 projects
- Country
- Kenya
- First vintage
- —
- Crediting period
- 2024-02-06 to 2029-02-05
- Estimated yearly credits
- 60,000
- Scale
- Small Scale · POA
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation · Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Data from
- Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry
Community involvement
Status and timeline
- Registry status
- Gold Standard Certified Design (Certified design)
- First credits (vintage)
- none yet
- Crediting period
- 2024-02-06 to 2029-02-05
- Credits issued
- 0 (retired 0)
Location
The registry gives Kenya as the location, so this project is not drawn on the map. It is counted in the country totals.
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