With Your Support — WaterSchool

Never before has access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene been more important. And, this past year, you helped our team in Uganda adapt to the changing conditions of COVID and reach over 100,000 people in remote parts of the country with life-changing education and tools to advance their own health and well-being.

What began as a project to use solar disinfection to provide access to clean water to people in remote areas where there wasn't any, has now grown into a holistic program with an expanded mandate of community transformation initiatives that truly change health and well-being on a large scale.

With the advances of this past year, your support has helped WaterSchool train over one million people in Uganda since we began in 2001.

Clean Water, Hygiene and Sanitation

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people gained access to safe drinking water through 189 new rainwater collection tanks that were constructed, holding over 1.1 million litres of safe water.
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     upgraded, safe latrines were built with tight fitting covers or Satopans, eliminating flies and smells.
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new handwashing facilities (tippy-taps) were built.

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Sanitation Committees were struck to continue teaching and promoting strong hygiene and sanitation practices.
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     households were trained in solar disinfection and the complete hygiene and sanitation program.

Did you know: In 2020,
  10,000
unusable plastic bottles were collected and recycled via our partnership with Coca-Cola Uganda.

SPOTLIGHT: Clean & Efficient Cooking Stoves

355 clean and efficient cookstoves were built this year.

For years, WaterSchool has been quietly teaching people to build simple, clean cookstoves in homes across rural Uganda. While not directly linked to our clean water focus, the impact of an energy efficient cooking stove, equipped with an outdoor exhaust chimney, cannot be understated for its impact on health and the environment. In typical Ugandan households, cooking stoves are energy intensive and the smoke it emits goes directly into the home. These new stoves reduce wood fuel needs by approximately 80%, and have drastically reduced the incidence of lung disease in women and children. These stoves were made by local people using local materials like termite dung, banana plants and locally made bricks. They cost just $4 each.