Ssenkaali Godfrey, the recipient of the first Quench and Connect university scholarship graduated from Uganda Martyrs University last November with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ethics and Development Studies. As you can see from his commencement photo, he was extremely happy to have attained his goal. This term, he is now serving as a ‘Quench and Connect Graduate Fellow’
At the end of last year, we drilled a new borehole on the campus of St. Dominic Savio Secondary School in Masindi, in north central Uganda. Previously, more than 600 students there took their drinking water from a single pipe faucet that delivered contaminated water from an unclean source. Frequently, the water would stop flowing, sometimes for days, and then
In July, Quench and Connect was awarded $4500 from Rotary Club 33 of San Diego, as part of their international grants program. The intent of this award is that it will serve as a challenge to Quench and Connect donors to match this amount and achieve our goal of providing a new borehole at a school in western Uganda. We
At the end of last year, we reached our goal of $9000 for a borehole well at St. Anne Grace Secondary School in Nakifuma, Uganda! The contaminated spring that was serving as a water source for this school was drying up and students could barely fill their jerrycans because the water level was so low, as you can see in
After Quench and Connect provides a borehole to a school in Uganda, and as soon as students’ health improves, then our next goal is to work with the teachers at the schools to identify needs for tools to enhance teaching. We were fortunate late last year to receive a grant of $9465 from the VWR Foundation, a philanthropic arm of
Early this year, we reached our goal of $9000 for a borehole well at St. Joseph’s Secondary School in Kyankwanzi, Uganda! The well was drilled in late spring and in June we went to Uganda to see the new borehole. More than 450 students now have clean water to drink, and no longer have to fetch water from filthy ponds