Frogs found Glass Half Full

Over the summer a group of concerned TCU students decided to help Africans struggling to find clean drinking water.

The result is the new student organization Glass Half Full, lead by co-founders Dalton Goodier, pictured above, and Lauren Enyart. They have paired up with LifeWater International, a non-profit dedicated to providing wells and other clean water sources to Africans across the continent. LifeWater identified the need for a new well in Ogette, a village in northern Uganda, home to about 130 families. 


“There is an unprotected spring that the village uses when possible, but when it dries up in the dry season, the community has no other alternative except a nearby swamp about three kilometers away,” Goodier, a sophomore from Lufkin, wrote on the group’s blog. “Those who have bicycles can ride to the swamp but others must walk.”

Glass Half Full is now working to raise awareness of the project and asking for donations of as little as $1 towards its initial goal of $5,500, the amount needed to build the well in Ogette.

“We want to get TCU really involved,” Enyart says in the group’s introductory video. “We think it’s a good project for everyone to get on board with. We’re going to be doing lots of cool stuff, concerts and events. It’s not just for people who are really into it like me, it’s for everyone.”

The group is already planning a fund-raising concert with recent TCU alum and musician Tim Halperin ’10 at the Aardvark on Sept. 10, with more events on the way.

“This is another way for TCU to continue reaching out to the global community,” says member Shane Constable, a senior from Houston. “There are people who don’t have clean, safe drinking water. This is something that’s important for us to help provide to other people.”

“Here in Texas the big crisis is getting the right brand of bottled water,” says Enyart, a sophomore from Kingwood. “But in Ogette, they don’t even have clean water to drink. The TCU community is very service oriented already. Once they hear what’s going on, the facts and figures behind it, I hope the campus rallies behind it like I know they can.”