SAFE WATER

In Eastern and Northern Uganda where our POSHU Project operates, the priority for women and children is to cart water for their daily needs. Women carry 20 litre jerry cans from the bore or stream to their homes on their heads, often for miles.

Children carry water from the bore or stream to their homes every day before school. Men carry water on bicycles. After I got to know the women in our POSHU classes, I learnt most suffered from neck pain from carrying water.

Since 2009, POSHU has supplied watering cans to each group so they can maintain their POSHU Community Garden nursery beds to grow seedlings. We erected small water tanks in 3 villages, and a large rain- water tank at a school.

One village had use of piped spring water for 3 hours a day. They used their POSHU tank to extend the availability of water to the village by filling it each day from the pipe.

Another village, we installed a pipe and tap to bring water from the main line to their POSHU Vegetable Garden, and they were able to sell water to the neighborhood. This saved people from the long trek to access water.

To donate: $200 will buy a rain water harvesting tank for a school or village.
To donate: $40 will buy a rain water harvesting drum for a household.