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Kiruddu, Uganda

8/31/2022

 
Completed: August 2022
Serves: Community of over 350 families, plus a school with an enrollment of over 600 students from the surrounding communities

Heartbreaking stories from this community shine a light on the dangers faced when collecting water. During dry seasons, children were forced to walk some three miles in order to gather water from the finger-like swamps of Lake Victoria. Ten children from this community were kidnapped and killed in satanic sacrifices. In addition, girls have been raped and children have drowned while collecting water. 

You can imagine the relief and gratitude the people in Kiruddu now have for having a clean water source within the safety of their community. 

“This borehole ... is within the school itself and in the middle of the village and not in the valley where bad people can easily harm our children and nobody sees them. You have helped us to solve most of those problems. Thank you very much. I will not get tired of sending you to convey our sincere thanks to our donors for doing this for us – for providing us with clean and safe water. Tell them again that we, the people of Kiruddu, are so thankful and very happy indeed." – Kiruddu Chairman Patrick Kayiza
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Katega, Uganda

8/30/2022

 
Completed: August 2022
Serves: Community of about 950 people, plus a school with an enrollment of 563 students from the surrounding communities

In her speech at the handing-over ceremony, the head teacher, Irene Nalubega, said the children had wasted a lot of time having to wait for the cattle keepers to water their animals before they could draw water for the school and their homes. She also said there was a high risk of children drowning when fetching water from these deep dug ponds.  A child was lost in such an accident last year.
 
“The people of Katega village, including these school children, we have been sharing the dirty pond waters together with cows, goats, stray dogs, and snakes! Thus, with this clean and safe water in our midst, this makes me extremely, extremely, very happy.” – Paul Yiga, Katega village chairperson, at the handing-over ceremony 
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Sister Salome at the handing-over ceremony

Suge Community, Kenya

8/30/2022

 
Completed: August 2022
Serves: 350 people

“I have used this water source for more than 40 years . . . Sometimes, when [I] am thirsty, when I see the water and imagine the source, the thirst goes away. Now that my grandchildren are suffering because of waterborne diseases, it will be my joy that they access clean and safe water in [the] future.” —Ayub Mwaka
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