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Thanks to our partners and donors like you, 49,885 people directly received clean water, sanitation services, and entrepreneurship training this month. That's nearly 50,000 people whose mornings look different. Hours once spent walking for water are now spent at work, in school, at home.
With sanitation training and new skills in hand, communities are building something harder to measure but just as real — a quiet, daily dignity that comes from clean water, clean hands, and a healthier life.
For the majority of us in Canada, safe water is simply a tap away.
In Kasese District, families still walk long distances to collect it. But that is changing by the day.
Our gravity flow water system is now 80% complete and by the time we're celebrating Canada Day, 16,881 people will be turning on the taps in Kasese.
This month we:
Soon, clean water will flow directly into the community.
At a birthing centre, water saves lives.
This month, St. Mary’s Birthing Centre in Kyeibuza saw the construction of an 80,000-litre storage tank supplying water to the facility. It impacts 300 mothers receiving better care with clean water monthly, safe deliveries, and a ripple that reaches more than 1,800 people across the region because mothers return home to their families safely.
Another system at Bubangizi Birthing Centre is now finished. A 115,000-litre underground storage tank to supply water to an overhead tank was constructed and serves 400 people monthly, and positively impacts another 2,000 through the families that benefit.
Clean water allows safe deliveries, proper sanitation, and better care for newborns.
We are so excited that the construction of a new gravity flow system has started in the Ibanda District. This water system will bring clean water to Kyentama, Ibanda for 1,427 people.
Building taps is only the beginning. Keeping them working matters just as much.
Our team in Uganda just signed a contract with the Ibanda district government to maintain all water infrastructure throughout the district, and we couldn't be more excited about what that means for the communities we serve.
In a country where nearly a third of rural water points are broken at any given time, a maintenance contract means the difference between a community with reliable, clean water and one that celebrated access to clean water — then watched it fail.
This contract means thousands of people across Ibanda can count on clean, reliable water for years to come.
When water is nearby, a family receives the gift of time.
Without the need to spend so much time to access clean water, families now have time to grow food and tend to their gardens, start small businesses, and support their children by keeping them in school.
This month community members received training in:
Clean water creates opportunity.
THANK YOU
This progress happens because people choose to care beyond their own communities.
Together, we are moving closer to a world where clean water is normal, not rare.
