Clean Water for all
Every child deserves clean water. it is not only a basic huma right, but it is also an essential building block of life that allows children and their communities to survive and flourish.
we believe that water and sanitation crisis can be solved within our life time. Our goal, in alignment with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, is to provide water and sanitation to everyone in every community where we work – including those in the hardest – to – reach places.
- More than 24 million people lack acces to basic drinking water services in Uganda…that’s over 3 in every 5 people.
- 29 million people lack acces to improved sanitation…that’s 8 in every 10 people
- Over 4,500 children under 5 dies a year from diarrheal diseases attributed to contaminated water, poor sanitation and unsafe hygien practices
- poor menstrual Hygien Management in school contributes to a 10% drop out of girls
Our Approach
In our clean water work, we strive to provide access to clean water as close as possible to households — with a maximum of 30 minutes round trip. We build water points in partnership with communities and governments, and we work to ensure that water points are locally managed and maintained. We also emphasise behaviour change interventions so that water is kept safe during collection, transportation, storage and use.
We also provide clean water in schools and healthcare facilities. Water access in schools ensures that students and staff have easy access to the water they need for drinking and other school activities. In healthcare facilities, water is an absolutely critical resource for the health and well-being of both patients and staff. Water is provided to the whole facility, with an emphasis on critical points of care — such as delivery rooms — so providers can wash their hands and keep facilities and instruments clean to care well for their patients and protect themselves.
Global Facts:
- 2.2 billion people, most of them in developing countries, lack access to a safely managed supply of drinking water at home
- More than 700 million people lack even a basic drinking water service
- Nearly one-third of all primary schools have inadequate drinking water facilities
- Time spend fetching water costs women and children productive time they could be using for education, livelihood activities, or other responsibilities
- Long journeys to collect water expose women and children to risk of sexual violence, harassment and stress
Water
- Borehole are constructed using drilling technologies appropriate to the local context
- Hand pump or mechanised solar- powered pump are intalled and operated to provide water for environment ranging from small communities to semi- urban settings of more than 10,000 people
- rain water collection systems are build to store and treat rooftop rain water before use
Sanitation
- latrines are built to protect people, water sources and the environment from feacal contamination
- communities recieved training on the importance of solid- wast management
- sanitation education helps protect children’s health and keep the environment free of open defecation
Hygien
- The adoptation of hand- washing with soap at critical times prevents the spread of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea and Ebola
- Hygien behaviour – change activities in communities, schools, and health centres improve hand- washing, water and food safty
Important: The power of clean water, sanitation, and hygien ( WASH) programmes open the door to community transformation.
We engaege with faith communities to help ensure thta the most vulnerable people benefit from improvements of water, sanitation and hygiene. And thus:
More time for family, education, and livelihoods
- women have more time to nurtitur their children and take part in income- producing work
- children have more time to attend school, enabling them realise their full potenmtial.
Improved food security and nutrition
- Livestock production increases, providing a valuable source of nutirents for hungry children
- Garden plots can flourish all year around
Better health and safty
- Medical facilities are improved, enabling basic services such as child delivery in hygienic condition
- increased use of prop[er sanitation facilities allow for better environmental hygiene
- Equitably accesble sanitation can givewomen and girls greater privacy and safty
- Healthy hygiene behaviours keep children safe from diseases and the risk of infection
- women and children are protected from injury and violence since they nolonger need to walk long distance for water
