Our partnership with Ugandan Water Project (UWP)

Health workers in Wakiso faced the challenge of treating patients in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic with severely limited water supplies. Health workers had to treat patients without enough water for hand-washing, leaving staff and patients alike vulnerable to picking up new diseases, including COVID-19. Outside of hygiene, drinking water is a basic necessity for treatments. Diarrheal diseases which cause severe dehydration, is one of the leading causes of death among children in Uganda.

One Day’s Wages partnered with the Ugandan Water Project (UWP) to bring reliable, self-contained water and hygiene solutions to seven health facilities in the Wakiso district. By providing high-quality rainwater collection systems, UWP empowered health workers with the water security they need to provide adequate care to patients. Water filter stations gave health workers a convenient, easy method for purifying water on-site, and fully stocked handwashing stations ensured that each facility could maintain proper hygiene among patients and health workers. As a result of these interventions, health facilities saw water-related costs drop drastically, relieving the constant pressure to ration water use.