Help Shape the Future of Clean Water in Africa: Trustee Search
At Water for Kids, we believe clean water isn’t a luxury, it’s a human right. We are a small, agile UK charity with an impactful footprint, delivering life-changing water and sanitation projects across communities in Uganda and Zambia for nearly 30 years. We are looking for a UK-based Trustee who understands the “on-the-ground” realities of...Continue reading→
A Big Thank You to the Rotary Club of Leicester Impact Group
Protecting spring water sources is one of the most cost-effective solutions used by Water for Kids to provide clean water. We were very fortunate to receive a grant from the Rotary Club of Leicester Impact Group to fund the protection of the Kazalabulwe spring in Iganga. The Kazalabulwa Spring is in the Nawangingi sub county...Continue reading→
Partnership with CIEH reignited
We are delighted to be back in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health thanks to the commitment of its President Mark Elliot. The newly invigorated partnership started in November with Trustee Elaine Rudman doing a presentation on Water for Kids to the CIEH Water Quality Conference which was well received. In April an...Continue reading→
Join Our Board of Trustees
Water for Kids is seeking a new UK-based trustee to join our Board. This is a meaningful opportunity to contribute to a small but impactful charity that transforms lives by providing access to clean water and sanitation. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive Board that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage...Continue reading→
Zambia Boreholes
Boreholes can break down for a number of reasons and fixing or ‘rehabilitating’ them is a very cost effective way to provide cleanwater. We’ve just completed a successful project in Luampa in Western Province in Zambia rehabilitating 14 boreholes which provided clean water to more than 4300 people in 12 communities, one school with 1021...Continue reading→
Killgerm a key supporter of Water for Kids
Water for Kids have been fortunate to have had a long history of partnership with Killgerm. Since 2013, they have raised a phenomenal £63,000 for our work enabling many communities to access clean water for the first time. The funds have been raised each year at a raffle at the Pest Control News Dinner, where Killgerm...Continue reading→
Uganda Spring Source Updates
Protecting spring water sources is one of the most cost effective solutions used by Water for Kids in providing clean water, and in the last year 28 projects have been completed in Uganda, in addition to some larger projects. Uganda is a very green country and has many artesian springs where water bubbles up and...Continue reading→
WE REACHED OUR BIG GIVE CAMPAIGN TARGET!
Thank you to everyone who supported our Big Give Christmas Challenge. We raised a fantastic £22,187 in total, made up of online donations and matched funds by our pledgers and our Big Give Champion Dormywood Trust, enabling a community of 1600 access clean water for the first time. Work is now beginning in Bubogu to...Continue reading→
Nakatambo Borehole Rehabilitation
Following last year’s successful borehole rehabilitation project in Chalilo ward in Chitambo in central Zambia we are doing another project in a different ward in Chitambo, Nakatambo. This project will rehabilitate 15 boreholes in 15 communities including several schools, a clinic and a market. The project includes training local people to be pump menders and...Continue reading→
Cairngorm Activities Donate £450
Many thanks indeed to Cairngorm Activities for their generous donation of £450 and for their continued support of Water for Kids. The support from Cairngorm Activities will enable us to service 28 boreholes in Uganda regularly, ensuring that 15,400 people in 28 communities continue to have access to cleanwater.
Namantooke Spring Source Uganda
WfK recently completed work to protect Namantooke spring source at Wamulongo village near Iganga. Water was being collected from a pool where animals and people waded in causing contamination. WfK funded the construction of a dam so that artesian water can be collected safely. The spring water now comes through a pipe in the dam...Continue reading→
Eilidh Naismith our new trustee
I’m Eilidh, one of the newest Trustees of Water for Kids. Growing up in suburban Glasgow, I aspired to become a doctor, which was fuelled by my early experiences of caring for my late father, who suffered from severe mental illness and later working as a community carer. These experiences deepened my understanding of the...Continue reading→
Charles Shachinda joins Water for Kids
“Over the course of my life’s endeavours, my personal ethos has broadly come to embody the realisation that some of the best gifts we can ever give or receive in life are to serve a purpose bigger than ourselves. At the very best, this can integrate some of life’s highest ideals, such as the promotion...Continue reading→