What we do

In 28 years Water for Kids has transformed the lives of over 440,000 people with clean water and improved sanitation. We have:

• improved health with fewer cases of diarrhoea
• increased school attendance,
• reduced poverty as communities can grow food more easily to eat and sell and can build better homes and new classrooms.
• above all, we have saved lives.

Water for Kids, with its partner The Zambian Institute of Environmental Health, pioneered the first solar powered water distribution in Zambia, it was in Kamaila village in 2007. Now this is used in many of our projects to bring water to large schools, clinics and communities living nearby.

The problem

In sub-Saharan Africa diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases are a major cause of ill health and infant deaths. In Uganda only 59% of the population has access to drinking water and 68% in Zambia
(Unicef 2023).