By Charles Kazibwe | Chief Executive Officer
GLOBAL GIVING REPORT 1 – JANUARY 2016
We are very grateful to all the donors who have generously given to our water boreholes project for Mubende District in Uganda. Since we started raising funds in October 2015, we have to date raised a total of £4,071 ($7,318.23) in the winter Global Giving crowd funding challenge.
With these funds, we aim to start working on the construction of the first boreholes in March 2016. We will provide updates on the progress of the project immediately the construction starts. Below are examples of our past work in water access provision in Uganda, and they show the impact of water boreholes on the lives of ordinary people.
Grandmother Namisango expresses her challenges in accessing clean water
65 year-old local resident Grandmother Namisango had been collecting unsafe water from the pond for years. This is what she told our project officers:
‘We have been facing severe difficulties in accessing water. Look at this dirty pond for example. People pass over the pond on these dirty logs. Children also bathe here, wash their clothes and also defecate in the pond. When it rains, the excrement floats in the pond and gave us terrible stomach pains. There are also algae in the pond which gave us a bad cough. But we had no option, so we had to drink the dirty water.
Now with this new borehole, she is able to get clean safe water and does not have to travel far from home. She says: “I am very happy for the new borehole drilled by Biva foundation. I am very thankful to all the donors who have made the borehole construction possible.”
As can be seen above, our past projects have the capacity to bring significant changes in the lives of beneficiaries through providing access to clean safe water by constructing water boreholes.
There have been decreases in waterborne diseases; children no longer need to walk kilometres to fetch water; women can now spend more time on productive employment; and girls are no more in danger of being abused along the way to fetch water.
However, the work is not yet complete. As stated on our campaign page, have a target of £19,495 to provide water boreholes for over 3,000 people in rural Uganda. We would be very grateful therefore if you could visit the GlobalGiving website page and make a donation, no matter how small (https://www.globalgiving.co.uk/projects/boreholes-for-safe-clean-water-in-uganda/). In this way you will be touching the lives of thousands of people in Uganda.
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