Jean-Louis Button has completed his mammoth ride of the British Isles coastline – just some 10,000kms around some very testing terrain! Jean-Louis has also exceeded his target fundraising total – and it is still coming in raising £3000 for his chosen 3 charities of which we are lucky enough to be one. Just amazing! Thank … Read more
This was our first year of applying to the Big Give Christmas Campaign which has proved to be have been a BIG success for us. We really have been so touched by the huge response in donations made to our Iganga Holistic Project, in such a difficult year for all.
Funding from the Randal Charitable Foundation has meant that Water for Kids could deliver a significant project to install a submersible solar pump to improve efficiency of the water supply. A Tower was constructed to carry two 10,000 litre water tanks (equal to 20 tons) with the solar pump raising the water. Pipe work was … Read more
Niamh Completed 28 Park Run Challenge and Raises over £3300. For those of you that follow us on social media, you will know that 8 year old Niamh has spent every weekend since April completing a different Park Run throughout Northern Ireland. By the end Niamh will have run 140 km and will have travelled over 1,700 … Read more
Water for Kids are thrilled and grateful to announce the recent approval for funding by the Randal Charitable Foundation of the Naitandu Solar Panel Project. In 2007 Water for Kids installed a borehole and rainwater harvesting at the school, delivered hygiene training and provided materials with training to households to build latrines, throughout the rural … Read more
CATEGORY | Best Environmental Health Project WINNER | Water for Kids and CIEH North East Region The CIEH North East Region raised money to deliver a sustainable environmental health project in Kenya. It partnered with Water for Kids and provided safe drinking water, facilities and water for hand washing and hygiene education for the first … Read more
Well done Sidhrah for completing the Budapest Marathon in October and raising over £1400 for Water for Kids. “Signing up for a marathon I had no idea how tough it was going to be…the countless hours of training, the 6.30am weekend runs so I could run, this was the toughest thing I’ve ever done – … Read more
Peter, the Chairman is at present in the middle of a 2 week visit to our projects in Iganga, Uganda. He has reported that our latest project has been completed – the protection of a water source at Nawanyingi Methodist in Iganga District. Approximately £1,000 has been spent protecting the source to provide safe water for … Read more
Two Trustees, Tom Jackson and Barbara Lucas are taking a group of 5 EHO’s from the North East branch of CIEH to Ndhiwa Western Kenya, in May this year .The NE CIEH has raised £7000 to carry out rainwater harvesting in 4 primary schools giving safe water to approximately 1800 children. The team will also … Read more
We would like to mention a big thank you to the Dabbagh Welfare Trust for their recent donation to fund the Walutente Community project in Iganga District, Uganda. This rural community of over 560 and school of 200 pupils currently collect water from large, contaminated ponds. the Dabbagh funding enables WfK to provide a continuous running … Read more