Bubogu Holistic Project almost complete!
We are very excited to let you all know that the work on the Big Give Campaign funded project in Bubogu is nearing completion. A borehole was drilled at the local primary school, providing the school and the community – approximately 1600 people – with access to clean water for the first time. Women and children...Continue reading→
Goodbye to Tom
We are sad to see Tom Jackson step down as a Trustee of Water for Kids after many years of commitment and dedication. He is a hard act to follow. He was instrumental in the success of over 100 spring protections and a few large holistic projects in Uganda, working alongside Barbara Lucas (Trustee) and...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.
Zambia | Mwanjabantu & Shamutina
In spite of our Project Managers being in the frontline of Coronavirus prevention work, their commitment has meant that two boreholes have recently been drilled to provide water for the first time in two villages. One is in the very remote area near the border with Mozambique, where previous efforts to drill boreholes have failed...Continue reading→
The Randal Charitable Foundation Naitandu Solar Powered Water Distribution Project Completed
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...Continue reading→
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→