Our implementing partner, Drop in the Bucket, recently drilled a well at St. Peters Primary School near Gulu, Uganda. This story focuses on a very special young student named Precious. Thanks to the following for supporting this project: – Bear-Dration, IL – Highland Community Middle School, WI – Impact Academy at Orchard Lake, MN – […]
Every day, students from Patrivia Primary School in Uganda make the long walk to a protected shallow well and wait half an hour in line to collect water more than a kilometer away from their classrooms. Despite how time consuming and difficult this process is- students must walk along a steep slope through dense vegetation […]
The 6th grade class at Jackson Middle School focused their first trimester on the idea that water is a global commodity and that all people deserve to have access to clean water. As part of this trimester theme, H2O for Life went to visit Jackson in early November to talk with them about the Global […]
Itwaga Primary School is in Mgama village, Iringa rural district about 55 kilometers from Iringa town. The current school population is 225 girls, 219 boys and 7 teachers/staff members. BEFORE: The school has a very challenging situation with no access to safe, clean water. Their current water sources are the river which is 2 kilometers […]
Demesi 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 for students, handwashing stations, and we trained students and staff on improved sanitation and hygiene practices. All […]
Due to COVID-19, many H2O for Life schools are unable to raise funds for their partner schools as they had planned this year. Because of this unfortunate situation, as of today, we need to raise $94,430 in order to complete the 60 projects that have been pledged.
As a water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) organization, education on disease prevention is a core part of the work we do.