Increasing access to safe drinking water & hygiene

Hello Supporter,

Precious greetings to you and your beloved ones!!!

We hereby send you our gratitude and heartfelt thanks for your contitued gift and support of water to the heatup communities that thirsty for water.

Rural areas are especially at risk, as 46% of their population has access to safe water and adequate sanitation, compared with 83% of urban populations. This further reinforces the need for improved water management and sanitation. The loss of animals, crop failure, and rising commodity prices resulted in a dangerous food shortage. There are an estimated four million people in need of ongoing food aid in Uganda, of which two million are children. This has led to higher rates of malnutrition, a condition that also increases the risk of measles and other vaccine preventable diseases. The prevalence of acute malnutrition in children is 20-30% in most areas of Uganda, and is thought to be higher, as it is difficult to document and often not recognized or treated until critical stages. Pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under five are especially at risk, as they do not receive the additional nutrition they need.

Before this interventions through your support, men tend to the need of their herds, women bear dispropotionate responsibilities in caring for the family and household duties. Their responsibilities include caring for children and the elderly, cleaning the home, cooking and collecting water. Women sometimes walkup to 30 kilometers to water sources and often what they are able to collect does not meet the needs of their families.

Women travelled farther away to available water sources, they intitial find less time to devote to their family's needs, resulting in social and health related consequences. As parents engage in more activities away from home, children suffer the consequences as they are left to care for themselves and the households duties.

The support through Increasing access to safe drinking water & hygiene is especially helpful to women and children in the community, who typically bear the greatest burden of water collection and transport. The intervention allows women and children to participate in other gainful activities such as completing their educations or fostering small business enterprises. With the collaboration of community leaders, community members, and international organizations, Increasing access to safe drinking water & hygiene can become a reality. This intervention has the potential to save lives, improve health, and build stronger communities.          

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We dearly what to thankyou for walking with us a big milestone in 2023 on behalf of the communities we support and the entire colleauges of staff. Water is one the elements that we live on, and many communities surfer including children from thirsty of water but through your generous support last year 2023, we saw God work in you to transform communities on water crisis. Children are now able to grow in healthy minds, stay at school for a day without a thirst challenge and family hygiene is improving due to availability of water in plenty. In 2023 together we were able install two (2) water source to two (2) vulnerable communities of about 3,600 people living on it.

Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programming provides acces to clean water and proper sanitation and hygiene training for communities. This is recognized as a crucial foundation for positive development in many areas, including health, income, agriculture and education. 

Our Plan for this year in the WASH programming

Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda through your generosity works to support small scale vulnerable communities alleviate from poverty. We work in three communities that have three (3) parishes and we were able to install two (2) water sources for them and now this year, help us HELP US TACKLE WATER CRISIS 1 COMMUNITY AT A TIME to one more community. This project will take us about $2,000 to help vulnerable children survive thirstness.

Finally; The 2024 April Little by Little Campaign is a five day crowdfunding campaign taking place from April 8-12th, and is designed to help us cultivate a robust network of donors. All eligible donations up to $50 per unique donor to Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda will be matched at 50% during the campaign until funds run out.            

Monthly Recurring Donors to one of our projects will be segmented, if you have a recurring donation but has also given one-time gift to our organization. We dearly thank you for trusting us with your support and we pray for a continued love for us and the incredible work we do in lives of the vulnerable children. We also wait upon your support on Little by Little campaign and to any of our project in the project page View all our gift catalog

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