From time to time, we get updates on past projects from the Head Teachers at schools, telling us about the impact clean water and teaching tools are having on their students. We’d like to share some of the recent messages with you, because, after all, it is because of your generous donations that these projects were completed. “I send you my inmost
This year a new borehole was drilled on the campus of St. Adolf Tibeyalirwa Secondary School so that 711 students there no longer have to walk deep into the bush to fetch water from a pond that is open to the animals and covered with ash from bush fires. The incidence of typhoid is down already since the students are
In late 2015, we planned to provide a borehole for Kicwamba Secondary School in Rubirizi Uganda. The school has 910 students coming from families that are mostly subsistence farmers. Gravity-flow piped water near the school was also used heavily by members of the local community, and was sporadic in supply and contaminated at the source of collection. This situation became
In March of this year, we provided a new borehole at St. Matia Mulumba Secondary School in the Kayunga District of eastern Uganda. Formerly, 518 students at this school had to walk a mile to fetch water from an open well that was full of dirt and insects, and located deep in the bush. Parents were ready to send their
Once again we want to share with you some news about Uganda that is not adequately covered by the International press. However, on April 26, 2017 there was an article written for the Associated Press by Jerome Delay that did tell about the great humanitarian work that is being done in Uganda to welcome and shelter refugees from the conflict in South
On September 10, 2016, an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 hit northern Tanzania and southern Uganda, with an epicenter near Lake Victoria. Dozens of people lost their lives, hundreds were injured and thousands more lost their homes. Unfortunately, this sad event was only minimally covered by the international news services. We just returned from our annual oversight visit to Uganda, where