Dear Team, We hope this finds you safe and strong during this unprecedented moment. We are so inspired by all the ways that you and your team have innovated to meet this moment. This was an exceptionally unique season for us. We usually hold our big annual sale on Nantucket but the strict local Covid […]
BEFORE: Bishop Bukenya School serves 400 students in the Kalagi community, but on any given day the number of students sitting in their classrooms is often much lower. With a leaking rainwater collection system and an unsafe borehole well as their only sources of drinking water, the school has had multiple outbreaks of typhoid among […]
Update on the recently completed project from our implementing partner, Volunteers for Amelioration Rural Areas (VARAS): “We are grateful to our sponsor for bringing such a great impact and the entire Agordeke community for coming out in their numbers to see this come to fruition. The project when completed will provide drinkable water, water for […]
Womulalu Special School in Kenya now has access to a new source of safe, clean water thanks to the completion of their rain catchment tank, which has the ability to collect 50,000 liters of water. New latrines and handwashing stations for students were installed and staff and students were trained on improved sanitation and hygiene […]
Located on a steep slope and surrounded by dense vegetation, community members and staff at Bright Kingdom Nursery and Primary School often worry about the safety of children who must make the daily walk to collect water. Roughly one thousand people in Kiwanguzi currently rely on a single pond for the majority of their water […]
BEFORE: Every day, young students from Building Tomorrow COU Primary School make the difficult walk to a nearby swamp that is shared by more than one thousand community members, hundreds of livestock animals, and other wild creatures. Despite the water’s high contamination levels and how difficult the collection process is– students must cross traffic, walk […]
Goibei Primary School in Kenya now has access to a new source of safe, clean water thanks to the completion of their rain catchment tank, which has the ability to collect 50,000 liters of water. New latrines and handwashing stations for students were installed and staff and students were trained on improved sanitation and hygiene […]
Thank you for bringing safe water to Knowledge Center Mbirizi Primary School! BEFORE: Despite already having a rainwater collection tank on their premises, Knowledge Center Mbirizi Primary School’s student population of 600 children is so large that the tank always seems to run dry. Students and staff are then forced to make the long walk […]
Nanganda Primary School in Kenya now has access to a new source of safe, clean water thanks to the completion of their rain tank, which has the ability to collect 50,000 liters of water. We installed new latrines with handwashing stations and we trained students and staff on improved sanitation and hygiene practices. All of […]
Thank you for bringing safe water to St. Matthew Kiwangala Central Primary School in Uganda! BEFORE: For the students and staff at St. Matthew Kiwangala Central Primary School, collecting adequate water for each day’s needs is an arduous process. Without a water source of its own, the school is forced to send young children and […]