Projects
Projects
Since 1996 Water for Kids has provided safe water to children and their communities in several countries across the developing world. Please click on the flags below to find out how our work is improving the health and quality of life of thousands of people.
You can also see a summary of
our achievements over the years.
Two new projects in Sierra Leone
Two new projects have recently received grants from Water for Kids.
The first is in the isolated town of Yiffin, in the North of Sierra Leone. The grant of £2,367 will contribute towards the repair and refurbishment of broken pipework system which supplied water from the local reservoir to standpipes and taps in the town of Yiffin, but was damaged during the war. The project will also extend the pipework to link the new Secondary School into the water system. The work started in September. It is being carried out through the Makeni Support Group, which provided three boreholes in Makeni last year with part funding by WfK. Two thirds of the cost of this project is from Caritas, an Italian NGO.
The second project is to provide a water tank and stand pipes in the market in Sierra Leone's second city Bo. Bo's central market is used by families to sell products and produce. Children are often in and around the market for 10 hours a day whilst their parents are at their stalls. The grant of £5,327 (two thirds of the total cost) was paid to Kenilworth Rotary Club, which is working with One World Link which is the twinning organisation for Warwick District Council and Bo's Council. The work will be completed by the end of the year.
Protected wells for a rural community in Chongwe, Zambia
Work has started to build two protected wells and ensure sanitation for 407 people in Shisholeka village. The village is in Chongwe, a sparsely populated rural area 40km from Lusaka. Contaminated shallow wells, or scoop holes are the only water supply for the community, as the nearest hand pump is at least two kilometers away. Few homes have toilets. Here we will be working on piloting two protected wells with hand-pumps. The work will be carried out by Village Water under the supervision of the Zambian Institute of Environmental Health.
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Rwanda
Water for Kids have approved a grant to supply water to Karongi Primary School in the Western Province of Rwanda.
Parents of the school children have been involved in planning and funding the project, which will be overseen by local environmental health personnel. Future maintenance will be undertaken by the primary school and the board of pupils’ parents. The importance of health education on water, sanitation and hygiene at the school is integral to the project.
The application has been brought to the attention of the charity by Helen Perry an Environmental Health Officer who taught in Rwanda in 2007 and has since returned to witness improvements in the country. The great news is that the Ministry of Health has recognised environmental health as a profession for the first time.
Water for Kids is delighted to be able to fund its first project the first in Rwanda.
Zambia and Uganda
Our major projects during the last five years have been in Zambia and Uganda, where we have built good working relationships with Environmental Health Officers. The projects in Zambia are larger, as there is a need to drill boreholes to obtain safe water. Efforts are also made to ensure there is adequate sanitation. About 25,000 Zambian people have safe water near their homes as a result of Water for Kids' first three projects in Kamaila, Chipapa and Fumbelo and Madimba.
In Uganda Water for Kids carries out up to twelve projects per year including protection of spring water supplies, providing safe water to hospitals and clinics and repairing water facilities. Many thousands of people have benefited from new or restored safe water supplies.
