August 25 – 29 2024 is World Water Week – to celebrate we are sharing a new video highlighting the impact our work is having in schools in Uganda. We built four rainwater harvesting tanks using ecoblocks at Nakateete Baptist Primary School early this year. We recently filmed teachers and pupils from the school to see what impacts the tanks have made – watch below!
Prior to our tanks being built, the available water supply at Nakateete Baptist Primary School was far below what was needed for the 430 pupils/staff and there was not enough clean drinking water for everyone.
We know from almost 40 years’ experience that access to clean water not only improves drinking water availability, it has powerful impacts on health, education, sanitation, poverty, well-being and the environment (supporting a number of different Sustainable Development Goals beyond clean water & sanitation – SDG 6). We are so pleased to hear that since we built our tanks at Nakateete Baptist Primary School:
- pupils and staff have access to sufficient levels of boiled drinking water
- personal hygiene and sanitation has improved
- there is enough water to also irrigate tree seedlings and crops in the school garden
- attendance levels have increased due to reduced sickness levels and pupils are no longer missing lessons to collect water
In Uganda we are building 107 roof rainwater harvesting tanks in 22 schools in the Masaka District, transforming the lives of over 10,000 pupils and staff. By the time of World Water Week we have completed 61 tanks at eleven schools. Our extensive tank build programme is continuing at the remaining schools until mid 2025.
