Clean Water For 13 Villages in Paya Sub County, Tororo District
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Help me drill more community Boreholes to provide access to clean and safe water to my community in Paya Sub County where close to 13,000 people are currently without access to clean water as indicated by the report from the Ministry of water and Environment Link: This means close to 13,000 people in Paya Sub County have no access to clean and safe water https://wsdb.mwe.go.ug/index.php/reports/district/63
Having successfully drilled a community Borehole in Kisia in Mwenge-one of villages in Paya, with support from our volunteer Michelle Joy, we are still need to drill more Boreholes to provide clean water access to communities in Greater Paya Sub County in Tororo District to cover the 12,000 people lack access to clean and safe water. Over 80% of the population in Tororo District lack access to clean water, some communities spend over 10 hours to collect a 20 Litres Container of water and also fetch water from unprotected swamps, springs, ponds, rivers and traditional hand dug wells exposing them to various water associated diseases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgMvhKUrZRc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3yN5luDq8.
In addition, the open and unsafe water sources which the communities have resorted to are being shared with animals and during rainy seasons, the water logging and flooding often resulted into contamination of available open water sources, leading to rampant outbreak of waterborne diseases during thus negatively affected the lives of people in the area. During dry seasons, the areas quickly dries up causing huge water and as a result, making mainly women and girls to walk very long distances in search for clean and safe water; carrying heavy water containers which are harmful to their lives and worsening their vulnerability in the community.
OUR APPEAL
If this is something closer to your heart, Please help us drill Community Boreholes in the different villages. This will help improve the living conditions of communities in the following ways;
- Bring Closer Clean and Safe Water Sources in different villages
- Reduce cases of water borne diseases
- Reduce distances covered by women and girls while collecting water,
- Reduce Health related risks of carrying heavy water containers for long distances,
- Improve on sanitation and hygiene,
- Improve school attendance by girl child due to reduced distances to collect water and;
- Improve on household productivity due to reduced time spent to collect water.
OUR GOAL
-To drill one Borehole per Village to provide a Clean and Safe water source.
-Train and form water user committees per village to man the water sources
COST PER COMMUNITY BOREHOLE
-Drill and Install functional (1) Hand pump Borehole per village USD 8,000
Having successfully drilled a community Borehole in Kisia in Mwenge-one of villages in Paya, with support from our volunteer Michelle Joy, we are still need to drill more Boreholes to provide clean water access to communities in Greater Paya Sub County in Tororo District to cover the 12,000 people lack access to clean and safe water. Over 80% of the population in Tororo District lack access to clean water, some communities spend over 10 hours to collect a 20 Litres Container of water and also fetch water from unprotected swamps, springs, ponds, rivers and traditional hand dug wells exposing them to various water associated diseases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgMvhKUrZRc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3yN5luDq8.
In addition, the open and unsafe water sources which the communities have resorted to are being shared with animals and during rainy seasons, the water logging and flooding often resulted into contamination of available open water sources, leading to rampant outbreak of waterborne diseases during thus negatively affected the lives of people in the area. During dry seasons, the areas quickly dries up causing huge water and as a result, making mainly women and girls to walk very long distances in search for clean and safe water; carrying heavy water containers which are harmful to their lives and worsening their vulnerability in the community.
OUR APPEAL
If this is something closer to your heart, Please help us drill Community Boreholes in the different villages. This will help improve the living conditions of communities in the following ways;
- Bring Closer Clean and Safe Water Sources in different villages
- Reduce cases of water borne diseases
- Reduce distances covered by women and girls while collecting water,
- Reduce Health related risks of carrying heavy water containers for long distances,
- Improve on sanitation and hygiene,
- Improve school attendance by girl child due to reduced distances to collect water and;
- Improve on household productivity due to reduced time spent to collect water.
OUR GOAL
-To drill one Borehole per Village to provide a Clean and Safe water source.
-Train and form water user committees per village to man the water sources
COST PER COMMUNITY BOREHOLE
-Drill and Install functional (1) Hand pump Borehole per village USD 8,000
