Our partnership with The Water Trust

An estimated 45% of wells in rural Uganda are broken, and just 18% meet basic standards of quality. As a result, women and children travel more than an hour to get clean water from neighboring villages, or make do with dirty water from local ponds. Young children are at greatest risk from contaminated water. Beyond chronic sickness, bacterial infections can inhibit the absorption of critical nutrients they need for cognitive and physical development.

One Day’s Wages partnered with The Water Trust (TWT) to improve access to clean, sustainable water for five rural communities in Uganda. In two communities, TWT built new deep borehole wells. In the three other communities, TWT moved a non-functional water point to a better location where it can provide clean water. The communities that TWT serve are in the districts of Kiryandongo and Masindi, places where internally displaced peoples and refugees from conflicts in South Sudan and elsewhere turn for a safe place to start a new life. Many lack sufficient access to clean water, and often wells break down as there is no way for communities to pay for maintenance and repairs. Because of this reality, The Water Trust partnered with these five communities to also form self-help groups which will collect and save the money they need to maintain the wells.