Education in Hand-Washing has Never been so Important
Since the emergence of COVID 19, never, in the world, has a simple bar of soap and access to safe water been more universally recognised as the primary protection against the spread of potentially deadly diseases. Imagine, facing what many of us are facing now, areas in lock down but without safe water in your house...Continue reading→
Nine new spring sources protected in Uganda
In February 2020, two Trustees visited Uganda to meet up with the Water for Kids team and to check on work carried out since August 2019. Nine new spring sources had been protected and one had been repaired following damage by heavy rain. Tom Jackson and Barbara Lucas found the team working hard and in...Continue reading→
Inspiring Kids Leading the Way in Fundraising for Water for Kids
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...Continue reading→
Obira Community, Uganda – A Case Study in Sustainability
“Water for Kids is more of parents to us, they first gave us free san plats, free protected spring and now trained us to make our own san plats at a cheap rate, who else on earth could do this?” Aggrey Kasango, Obira 2019. In 2011, Water for Kids first protected the water source, damming...Continue reading→
The Randal Charitable Foundation to Fund Naitandu Community Solar Project
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...Continue reading→
Zambia Update
Bore holes have recently been installed in 4 villages and one at a school in Mwanjabantu bringing the total number of bore holes that WfK have installed in the area to 11. This is a very remote area with real water challenges so these bore holes have made a huge difference to local life. WfK...Continue reading→
Water for Kids Winners of CIEH Excellence Award
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...
Welcoming our New Chairman
We welcome Richard Hall as the new Chair of Water for Kids; he took over from Peter Minhinnett on 3 November. We are very grateful to Peter for his hard work as Chair for the last five years. Richard became a trustee of WfK in 2016 after retiring from his role as Head of Environmental...Continue reading→
Supporters raise over £3,300
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 –...Continue reading→
Zambia Visit October 2018
Richard Hall and Sara Emanuel, Trustees visit the recently completed Water for Kids projects in the Petauke region and assessed potential locations for future projects. The main focus for work in the last year has been the provision of six boreholes in the Petauke District, 280 miles East of the capital Lusaka. With ZIEH colleagues we visited...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→
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→
Monitoring Remote Projects in Zambia
Sustainability is important to Water for Kids, so Kennedy Mulele, our project manager appointed by the Zambian Institute of Environmental Health, went on a grueling trip in May to monitor our remote projects which were carried out in the last three years. Over 9 days he traveled right across Zambia and back, more than 2000...Continue reading→