Case Study

Kuli is a village of around 2,800 people. To fetch water, the women and girls use to have to walk several kilometres twice a day during the dry season.  The water they fetched was unsuitable for drinking.

Working with our partners, we've delivered clean water to the village through installing four bore holes with hand pumps. Latrines have also been built and health promotion talks held in the village.

The work has made a dramatic difference to the village, bringing huge improvements to the villagers' health.

The village chief asked the following comments to be recorded:

"Before, we were really suffering for water and even now if you look at our village there are very few bicycles because they were ruined when we used them to go for water - we couldn't carry the water on our heads because it was too far to walk.

Now we have the water pump, everyday, we are just laughing and everyone is clean. Before, the whole community couldn't trade well, as we spent all our time fetching water but now we have time for economic activities and we are hoping that the village will grow larger. Also, now we have water, we hope our health will improve so much, as we used to get a lot of stomach aches because of the bad water"