Safe clean water for 6,000 people in rural Uganda

GLOBALGIVING REPORT 10 – APRIL 2018

Safe Clean Water for 3,000 people in Rural Uganda

We want to thank our donors for their numerous donations towards our “Safe Clean Water for 3,000 people in Rural Uganda” project.

In the past 3 months we have been able to support community members in Butebi Village in Mityana District to construct a borehole, for safe drinking water.

Before the construction of the above borehole, community members in the area and their children used to walk long distances to fetch water and it was unclean and unsafe for human consumption thereby making them ill due to water-borne diseases. Now that they have this borehole they are able to drink safe clean water and their health is expected to improve greatly. 

The need to construct more boreholes still continue to exist in MItyana and other under-served areas as there are many other communities which still lack this facility not only for drinking but also for agriculture and livestock farming activities.

We continue looking up to you and other people interested in the kind of work we are doing for donations.

Testimony

Namiburo, a community member of Butebi Village, had this to say:

Before the borehole was constructed, we used not only to suffer from poor health, but also had difficulties in finding water for watering our gardens due to lack of water and our plants were not growing well. As a result, we have not been having much yields from our gardens. After the construction of the borehole, it has boosted our finances. Before we used to spend a lot of time collecting water for irrigating the crops but now that it is closer and a safer source it has become easier and cheaper. This season we expect higher returns from our gardens."

Links:

• Transform Africa Website