Safe clean water for 6,000 people in rural Uganda

TRANSFORM AFRICA GLOBALGIVING REPORT 8 – OCTOBER 2017

Safe Clean Water for 3,000 people in Rural Uganda

Miyanzi and Busimbi sub-counties have been experiencing persistent drought for over two years now even school children have to leave their lessons to walk long distances to collect water. This water is not fit for human consumption.

Mothers like Namusisi below have to depend on their children to collect water from dirty ponds far away from home. This makes the children very tired after school and so are unable to focus on their academic work.

In the past, two boreholes were constructed in these sub-counties but these have been insufficient because of the increasing number of the population in the area. Since the last report two more boreholes have been constructed to ease the pressure on the existing boreholes.

We thank you the donors for your numerous contributions which have had life changing impacts on the lives of the needy people of Miyanzi and Busimbi sub-counties.

However, there is still need for more donations to address the pressing challenges of the people of Uganda. We urge our donors to please continue to donate towards this venture. The people of Uganda are still in dire need of more boreholes as more and more people are falling ill because of unsafe water and are exposed to many water-borne diseases.

Testimonies

Testimony 1

A lady by the name of Namusisi sends her children to collect water from the pond after school before the borehole was constructed; they have this to say:

“We always fetched water from this water source. We used it for all the domestic needs at our home including drinking. We walked for a long distance to get here mostly after a long day at school, by the time we got home after collecting enough water for the next day it was usually dark outside. We are happy now that we do not have to walk very far. We fear the dark because it is in the darkness that children get molested. We are happy for the newly constructed borehole as the water is very clean and our mother too can go and fetch water by herself now that the borehole is not far from our home”.

Testimony 2

Namukoza and her friends have been collecting water for their school. They have this to say:

“Each day at school before lunch break we have to collect water for our teachers. We do it in turns but we have to walk long distances. This causes us to be tired for the next lesson as usually the pond is very far from the school.

We are happy now that community members are constructing the borehole which is near our school. We will have more time to concentrate in our studies and be able to play at lunch break without been worried to fetch unsafe water far away”.

Links:

• Transform Africa website