With the support of the local community, our new dugout in Kanjiyili completed in March 2026. Kanjiyili is a small rural village in the North-East Gonja District, home to 221 people. Its only source of water—a seasonal dugout—dries up each year around March, leaving the community without local water access for an average of four months. This resulted in villagers, especially women & young girls walking very long distances to find often un-safe water, disrupting their education and work.
Engineering research for this project unexpectedly highlighted that the existing dugout in Kanjiyili is positioned away from the intake of rainwater runoff. Redirecting this water source would have been more costly than creating a new dugout at a position that will naturally collect water. As such, rather than renovating an existing dugout (as with Sinsina and Tacpuli), works at Kanjiyili focused on creating a new dugout.
Our work in Ghana supports a number of different Sustainable Development Goals. Women and children will no longer have to walk far distances to alternative sources of water, allowing children to stay in school and women to focus on other important activities (SDG 4 – Quality Education and SDG 1 – No Poverty). This project also represents a significant step in building climate change resilience for villages and communities reliant on dugouts.
We are thrilled to share the news that our dugouts at Sinsina and Tacpuli which used to run dry this time of year still have water which is a tremendous success!
Many thanks to everyone who has donated towards our work in Ghana, we are really grateful for your support.
