Uganda: safe water for school children
Fact: Children uprooted from their village in Kitemba, western Uganda, have no safe water supply at school, and classrooms are extremely overcrowded.
Aim: To provide safe water for the Kitemba primary school and community by the sinking of two vital boreholes. We will also construct three extra classroom blocks at the school.
Thanks to you: In 2009, ActionAid constructed these classroom blocks and helped 130 children return to school.
The construction of new water sources is underway. When completed, this will ensure that 2,000 children and their families have access to safe, clean water in Kitemba.
How far will your donation go in 2010?
- £20 could provide eight children with access to safe, clean water
- £300 could buy desks and chairs for two classrooms
- £1,500 could build toilet facilities to improve water and sanitation facilities for pupils at the school.
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Real lives: Mary's story
"We fear drinking the water, but in the dry season we have to."
Read Mary's story here.
The story of Kitemba
"Soldiers evicted over 400 families and destroyed the village."
Read the story of Kitemba.
Water in Uganda
- In Uganda, 40 per cent of people have no clean water, and around 60 per cent have no decent sanitation
- People evicted from their homes in Kitemba are now in severe need of safe water sources
- Children miss an hour of lessons each day collecting water from the ponds
- Sometimes the children get bitten by snakes.
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