A staggering 2.2 billion people still lack access to safely managed drinking water.

Four out of five people living without at least basic drinking water services, are in rural areas.

Source: The United Nations World Water Development Report 2024.

Our water harvesting programmes are a lifeline for the remote rural communities where we work, providing not only clean drinking water but improved personal hygiene & health benefits.

The number of people facing hunger and food insecurity has been rising since 2015, with the pandemic, conflict, climate change and growing inequalities worsening the situation.

Source: UN DESA. 2023. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023: Special Edition – July 2023.

Our water harvesting tanks in Uganda are enabling many schools to provide pupils meals for the first time and for schools to grow cabbages, maize & bananas in their gardens.

In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than two-thirds of children complete primary school*. In Uganda pupils miss lessons to collect water and poor sanitation leads to girls dropping out of school once they begin menstruating. 

*Source: UN DESA. 2023. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023: Special Edition – July 2023.

In the Ugandan schools where we have installed tanks, we have seen a 26% increase in school enrolment and a 23% increase in girl’s attendance.

There has been some progress on improving global health in recent years but the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing crises have impeded progress towards this Goal.

The communities we work with in Ghana and Uganda are at risk of contracting water borne diseases due to drinking water that is not clean.

Our programmes provide a clean and on-going water supply. In the Ugandan schools where we have installed tanks, attendance levels have increased due to reduced sickness levels.

The UN’s latest SDG report in 2023 states “With a climate cataclysm looming, the pace and scale of current climate action plans are wholly insufficient to effectively tackle climate change.”

The communities where we work are already being impacted by intense extreme weather events and rising temperatures.

In Uganda, the water from our tanks is being used to grow tree seedlings to plant in school gardens and distributed to parents and communities to enhance village micro-climates.