Uganda projects
Trustees aim to visit the team in Uganda regularly to assess work, scope futureprojects, and encourage the team. A visit was made in February 2020, and then travel within Uganda was restricted due to the pandemic. The team carried on with work where allowed during the restrictions, clean water being even more essential, and contact...Continue reading→
Borehole rehabilitation projects in Zambia
Water for Kids have completed a borehole rehabilitation project in Chalilo ward in Chitambo in northern Zambia. Borehole rehabilitations are very good value for money as the hole has already been drilled and they usually just need new parts. 12 boreholes were rehabilitated including a school with 813 pupils, clinics and markets. More than 5,800...Continue reading→
Water for Kids trustees visit to Zambia September 2022
In September 2022 three trustees made their first visit to Zambia in four years to monitor completed projects, meet old and new colleagues and to scope further projects. The visit was a great success. It was the first opportunity to meet in person with the newly appointed project manager, Clavel Mulenga, an environmental health professional...Continue reading→
Uganda Update
After the successful completion of two large holistic community projects in Busera and Nakivumbi the local team revisited the projects to carry out an in- depth evaluation. This has shown vast improvements in the health and wellbeing of both communities and increased school attendance of mature girls due to new washrooms. The team have also...Continue reading→
Welcome to our new trustee Favour Nyikosa
Favour has a background in technology, having a PhD in Machine Learning from Oxford University and Computer Science degrees from Imperial College London & the University of Zambia. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of a financial technology company. Favour was born and grew up in Zambia. He has seen first-hand the hardships people...Continue reading→
Kenya Update
In July the first part of phase two of a project to provide Rain water Harvesting (RWH) and new latrines with washrooms for mature girls at two schools in Ndhiwa Kenya was completed. The second part is to provide RWH at another school which is currently in progress. This project was made possible with donations...Continue reading→
Thank you to Killgerm and the Iganga Reunion and Jubilee Celebration Group
We would like to say a big thank you to a new supporter: The Iganga Reunion and Jubilee Celebration Group for their donation of £1,628. It was handed to trustee Barbara Lucas at the Rebuilding Lives Exhibition at New Walk Museum in Leicester. This will fund the protection of a spring water source in the...Continue reading→
Our new Trustee Elaine Rudman
Introducing our new Trustee Elaine Rudman. Elaine has spent her working life in local government and currently manages a regulatory services department in NE England. In 2018, Elaine assisted a Water for Kids project in Kenya, funded by colleagues at her Department. Seeing first hand the challenges faced by such communities and the life changing impact of direct...Continue reading→
The Randal Charitable Foundation Donation
A huge thank you to The Randal Charitable Foundation for donating £19,300 to fund the The Nakavumbi Community Holistic Safe Water Project. Nakavumbi is located in rural Iganga District, Uganda. It has a population of 1007 people and a school of 500 pupils. This community is vulnerable to diseases; without access to safe water and sanitation villagers are...Continue reading→
Harmony Fire Fund the Safe Water Project at the Wainha Community
Earlier this year, Harmony committed to provide two safe water systems wiith Water For Kids in Uganda 2021 and work has now been completed at the first spring in the Wainha Community. Feedback from some of the parents shows that due to the reduction in gastro illness, they have seen a reduction in the costs...Continue reading→
Ground Work – Mary McLaughlin | EH News July 2018
Zambia has many isolated towns and villages. People, including young children, often have to walk long distances to collect water and transport it home, carrying the buckets in their hands and on their heads. The water is also often heavily contaminated. Last September, I had the opportunity to become involved with the environmental health charity,...Continue reading→
Protection of a water source at Nawanyingi Methodist, Uganda
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...Continue reading→
North East CIEH has raised £7000 for Kenya project
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...Continue reading→
Mwanjabantu District Project
The Eastern Provence is to be the new area of focus for Water for Kids. Here we visited some of the remotest villages in the Mwanjabantu District, on the border with Mozambique, with our Partners, the Zambia Institute of Environmental Health. On our visit, we found some of the most shocking conditions – people were waiting for hours...Continue reading→
Uganda Field Trip May/June 2017
On our recent successful visit to Uganda, we were struck once again by the serious lack of rain. In many areas, the failure of the seasonal rain to arrive has resulted in crops failing, dried up water sources and rumours of starvation. These dire conditions have resulted, more than ever, in the need for the provision...Continue reading→
The Dabbagh Welfare Trust Walutente Project, Uganda
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...Continue reading→
Zambia | Namasheshe Project Is Handed Over
MAY 2017 The completed Water for Kids project in Namshshe, Western Zambia was handed over on 8 May. Community representatives including Water Committee members, Hygiene Promoters and Pump Menders, all trained by Water for Kids, met with our Project Managers and the local Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs). They agreed to take over the project by...Continue reading→
Zambia | Training Water Committees
February 2017 In February nine Water Committees were trained in Western Province, Zambia. They are looking after boreholes and water pumps recently provided or repaired by Water for Kids in Mukunkiki and Namasheshe. Kennedy Mulele (Project Manager on behalf of our partner, the Zambian Institute of Environmental Health) said that the Water Committees “have a...Continue reading→