Help Kenyan and Ugandan Women Provide Clean Water

Catherine Ondele is a nurse in a small village near Kakamega, Kenya. In 2012, her clinic was suffering because they could only provide very limited services since any health treatment requiring water required that she and her other nurses walk hours to fetch the water.

Catherine has since been attending the GWWI Training Program with our partners Women in Water and Natural Resources Conservation. In just 2 years, because of her new water, sanitation and hygiene knowledge, she has built 2 rainwater harvesting tanks, was able to start a birthing center in the clinic, taught hundreds of people how to practice good water-related hygiene practices, and BECAUSE OF YOUR SUPPORT - has taught women how to build Biosand filters, installed them into the clinic, as well as how to test water to ensure that their water is safe.

As a result

• - the clinic opened a birthing center and has been delivering an average of 30 babies per month
• - the clinic received funding from the government because of their healthy birth rates
• - Catherine has held regular water health workshops at the clinic teaching hundreds of people to avoid getting water related disease
• - all the nurses and employees got a raise from their new funding from the government!

Catherine is a supreme example of how water education and solutions can bring health and wealth to communities! She has transformed her once suffering clinic to become a thriving center for health services, water and health education and learning about affordable water and sanitation technologies! Brava Catherine!

Thanks so much for your incredible support this year! You have truly given the GIFT of H2OPE!