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Health > Safe, Sustainable Water for 8,000 people in Uganda (#2410)
Summary
This Water Missions International project provides 8,000 people (an entire village) with safe, sustainable water and health and hygiene training in rural Naminya, Uganda, Africa.
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Thanks to donors like you, a total of $7,244 was raised for this project. Other Projects Run By Water Missions International That You Can Help
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Naminya, in the district of Mukono desperately needs access to safe water. They currently travel to get water, and that water is dirty and contaminated. This project will install a Living Water(TM) Treatment System closer to the community and build a water lagoon at the stream and pump water a distance of 350m to the system. The entire community of Naminya will benefit.
Site/Community Assessment, Transportation of Equipment, Installation and Start up of System, Sustainability Training, Health and Hygiene Training and a 12 month Monitoring and Evaluation.
Total Funding Received to Date: $7,244
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $7,244 . The original project funding goal was $27,500.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).
The project will change the lives of 8,000 people. They will be able to live healthy lives without suffering from water-borne diseases. They will also have the opportunity to get an education and increase their income to overcome the poverty cycle.
"We get very tired walking back and forth to get the water. The water is also used for animals and there is always illness as a result of using the stream water."
- Andrew Mugambura, beneficiary
Lindsey Ballenger
Director of Development
P.O. Box 31258
Charleston, South Carolina 29417
United States
843-769-7395
Email:
Water Missions International
P.O. Box 31258
Charleston,
SC
29417
United States
843-769-7395
http://www.watermissions.org
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This project is located in Uganda
and can also be found under Health.
For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 23, 2008
By Lindsey Ballenger - Director of Development, May 04, 2009 01:20 PM
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