WATER:
Access to clean water transforms communities by improving health, boosting education, and saving time

Health and Hygiene

• Prevents diseases: Eliminates pathogens causing cholera, typhoid, and dysentery
• Reduces mortality: Lowers child death rates caused by severe diarrheal illnesses
• Safer chores: Ensures cooking, cleaning, and laundry do not spread germs

Educational Impact

• Higher attendance: Students miss fewer school days due to waterborne sickness
• More teaching time: Teachers stay healthy and remain in the classroom
• Dignity for girls: On-site sanitation keeps menstruating girls in school

Economic and Time Savings

• Shorter walks: Eliminates long, exhausting daily journeys to remote water sources
• Productive hours: Frees up time for adults to work and children to study
• Lower healthcare costs: Saves poor families from expensive medical bills

As an example of the work our charity carries out, here are a few projects that detail how we have helped 1,700+ school children and 18,000+ local people from our surrounding area

• Bore Holes:

• Project Ciara:

Borehole (depth 262 m) with pump-house, pumping water to a 200,000-litre tank which provides water to 20km of pipeline which has 13 water kiosks. Situated in Kikelelwa Primary school which has a student population of 429. The water kiosks have a capacity to provide water to a local population of approximately 9000 people

• Belgrove Interact:

Borehole (depth 240 m) with pump-house, pumping water to a tank for the school, a water kiosk for the community and a cattle trough. Belgrove school has a total of 421 pupils. The water also services the local population of approx. 2000 people. Recently we converted the pumping system from generator to solar making it more eco-friendly and reducing the associated costs to the school for purchasing diesel

• Maili Tatu clinic:

Borehole (depth 180 m) providing to the maternity wing and outpatient clinic, water kiosk/water collection point for the community. This facility is the only public health care unit in the Maili tatu area. It services a population of approx. 3000 people and while the maternity unit is not yet open women still give birth at the dispensary as well as it providing daily health services to the local population

• Matapes Primary School:

Borehole (depth 160 m) solar powered, taps providing water for the school and surrounding community. Matapes school has a student population of 500 pupils and a local community of approx. 2000. The borehole project provides water for the school with a water selling point for the community and also a school farm with both drip irrigation and flood irrigation. The farm grows maize and beans as well as fruit trees and kales. The food produced is used by the school for their feeding program

• Olmapinu Primary School:

Borehole (depth 120 m) solar powered, providing water for the school and surrounding community. Olmapinu primary has a student population of 382 pupils. The water project services a community of approx. 2300 people. There is a water collection point which services the local community and the water also provides irrigation for a school farm which can grow food for the pupils daily needs.

to date:

eighteen shallow ground wells

two 16,000 litre tanks in schools to collect rainwater

3500 litre tank to a clinic to collect rainwater

7.5 km pipeline between Rombo and Matepes and Enterkesi

pipeline to serve Rombo Village consisting of a pipeline from a spring, a pump house, 2 storage tanks of 8,000 litres mounted on a 9 m structure to provide water by gravity to the population, solar panels and pump added 2019

2 km pipeline from Belgrove borehole with one water kiosk for community water

5 km pipeline from an existing borehole to Nasipa Primary school

two Sand Dams in the Noolasiti area