We welcome Richard Hall as the new Chair of Water for Kids; he took over from Peter Minhinnett on 3 November. We are very grateful to Peter for his hard work as Chair for the last five years. Richard became a trustee of WfK in 2016 after retiring from his role as Head of Environmental … Read more
Well done Sidhrah for completing the Budapest Marathon in October and raising over £1400 for Water for Kids. “Signing up for a marathon I had no idea how tough it was going to be…the countless hours of training, the 6.30am weekend runs so I could run, this was the toughest thing I’ve ever done – … Read more
Richard Hall and Sara Emanuel, Trustees visit the recently completed Water for Kids projects in the Petauke region and assessed potential locations for future projects. The main focus for work in the last year has been the provision of six boreholes in the Petauke District, 280 miles East of the capital Lusaka. With ZIEH colleagues we visited … Read more
Zambia has many isolated towns and villages. People, including young children, often have to walk long distances to collect water and transport it home, carrying the buckets in their hands and on their heads. The water is also often heavily contaminated. Last September, I had the opportunity to become involved with the environmental health charity, … Read more
Peter, the Chairman is at present in the middle of a 2 week visit to our projects in Iganga, Uganda. He has reported that our latest project has been completed – the protection of a water source at Nawanyingi Methodist in Iganga District. Approximately £1,000 has been spent protecting the source to provide safe water for … Read more
Two Trustees, Tom Jackson and Barbara Lucas are taking a group of 5 EHO’s from the North East branch of CIEH to Ndhiwa Western Kenya, in May this year .The NE CIEH has raised £7000 to carry out rainwater harvesting in 4 primary schools giving safe water to approximately 1800 children. The team will also … Read more
The Eastern Provence is to be the new area of focus for Water for Kids. Here we visited some of the remotest villages in the Mwanjabantu District, on the border with Mozambique, with our Partners, the Zambia Institute of Environmental Health. On our visit, we found some of the most shocking conditions – people were waiting for hours … Read more
On our recent successful visit to Uganda, we were struck once again by the serious lack of rain. In many areas, the failure of the seasonal rain to arrive has resulted in crops failing, dried up water sources and rumours of starvation. These dire conditions have resulted, more than ever, in the need for the provision … Read more
We would like to mention a big thank you to the Dabbagh Welfare Trust for their recent donation to fund the Walutente Community project in Iganga District, Uganda. This rural community of over 560 and school of 200 pupils currently collect water from large, contaminated ponds. the Dabbagh funding enables WfK to provide a continuous running … Read more
MAY 2017 The completed Water for Kids project in Namshshe, Western Zambia was handed over on 8 May. Community representatives including Water Committee members, Hygiene Promoters and Pump Menders, all trained by Water for Kids, met with our Project Managers and the local Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs). They agreed to take over the project by … Read more