Obira Community, Uganda – A Case Study in Sustainability

Obira

“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 … Read more

The Randal Charitable Foundation to Fund Naitandu Community Solar Project

Carrying water

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

Zambia Update

Mwanjabantu borehole

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 … Read more

Water for Kids Winners of CIEH Excellence Award

CIEH Award Winner

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

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 … Read more

Supporters raise over £3,300

Sidhrah Naeem, Mary McLaughlin and Rose Dindol

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

Zambia Visit October 2018

Petauke District Zambia

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 … Read more

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, … Read more

North East CIEH has raised £7000 for Kenya project

Ndhiwa Western Kenya

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