Kyabagamba, Uganda

​Completed: November 2023
Serves:  A community of 398 families, plus a school with an enrollment of 763 students from the surrounding area

“For sure, you are not only donors, but our true friends. You live very far away from us, you have never seen us, but you were able to come to our assistance . . . So, if I call you friends, I am 100% right. Thank you very much for being so kind and generous to even people you have never known or seen. . .

“I can even spend a full day telling you how beneficial [the borehole] is to us and how you have saved uncountable humanity’s lives. But I think from the little I have narrated, it is enough for you to read our hearts."

—Kiwanuka Edward, village chairperson 

“The entire community is located in a swampy area with dirty water not fit for human beings. But it is the one we have been using for cooking and washing, together with animals because this is also cattle keeping area. Not only that, our children have been losing a lot of time daily because of long distances searching for water in those valleys, in the swamps. Also, collecting water on the side of our children at times has been very dangerous because some parts of the swamps are deeper. Some past years we experienced accidents of students drowning in those deeper areas."

—Nakkazi Gorreth Ndibassa, head teacher at Kyabagamba Primary School