Women and water entrepreneurs
Date Published: 7/14/2023
We are WellBoring Groundwater. We are a volunteer driven NGO, none of our team members are on salary but are paid stipend for their services. Our head office is based in Kisumu, Kenya, with activities cutting across Kenya. We work to provide WaSH services to rural primary schools, churches and women groups through drilling new boreholes, rehabilitation of broken/abandoned bore wells and building toilets. We work as implementing organisations for other like minded organization. Through such collaboration/partnership with other charities we have so far drilled 400+ boreholes.
In vast area of rural Kenya, women especially the widows are very marginalized and do faces all forms of discrimination including right to and /or access to basic services such as clean drinking water. This has resulted in poor health and indignity such as rape as women have to get out of their homes as late as 4pm to go fetch water — some 5km. (Widows are more vulnerable to rape attack). Lack of water within good proximity has pushed women to poverty as they lack time for Income generation engagements.
Making water available to women through their social groups is a life changing business, it creates a ripple effects that yields multiple benefits not only for women but for the entire village - hence poverty eradication.
Having started as a village group, we understand the ladies predicament, hence we come in hardly and plays a major role in the transformation of health/ social economic status of a rural mother - many of whom are widows. Our works includes drilling boreholes for safe drinking water, which they not only use for drinking but are selling it out. Earned revenues are pump back on maintenance and into their loan Sacco.
With the above background information, we hereby write to seek support to help drill and equip 1No of boreholes, of 150mts deep, that fitted with solar power water pumps, together with elevated water tank & water kiosks.
On completion the projects will in impact the lives of 6,000+ persons directly through accessing safe drinking water. In addition, 300 women groups members plus their households/homesteads shall benefit from loan scheme - hence improving cash power. Other outcomes include reduction of water borne diseases, increase enrollment/retention of pupils in schools, stable families, increase life expectancy and qualify of life among many benefits.
In vast area of rural Kenya, women especially the widows are very marginalized and do faces all forms of discrimination including right to and /or access to basic services such as clean drinking water. This has resulted in poor health and indignity such as rape as women have to get out of their homes as late as 4pm to go fetch water — some 5km. (Widows are more vulnerable to rape attack). Lack of water within good proximity has pushed women to poverty as they lack time for Income generation engagements.
Making water available to women through their social groups is a life changing business, it creates a ripple effects that yields multiple benefits not only for women but for the entire village - hence poverty eradication.
Having started as a village group, we understand the ladies predicament, hence we come in hardly and plays a major role in the transformation of health/ social economic status of a rural mother - many of whom are widows. Our works includes drilling boreholes for safe drinking water, which they not only use for drinking but are selling it out. Earned revenues are pump back on maintenance and into their loan Sacco.
With the above background information, we hereby write to seek support to help drill and equip 1No of boreholes, of 150mts deep, that fitted with solar power water pumps, together with elevated water tank & water kiosks.
On completion the projects will in impact the lives of 6,000+ persons directly through accessing safe drinking water. In addition, 300 women groups members plus their households/homesteads shall benefit from loan scheme - hence improving cash power. Other outcomes include reduction of water borne diseases, increase enrollment/retention of pupils in schools, stable families, increase life expectancy and qualify of life among many benefits.
