Clean water for 200 people per day in Kitui, Kenya

Dear Valued Supporters,

We are delighted to update you on the progress of our new borehole project to be drilled at our Kitui Seed of Hope Centre in rural Semi-arid Northern Kenya.

Now more than ever, we need your support to get this much needed borehole project to take off. Global warming and extreme climate change has hit Kenya hard in the past 2 months with very heavy rainfall witnessed from April resulting in flooding in most parts of the country and severe crop damage.

In Kitui, despite the reprieve of being able to harvest the rain water for the centre’s consumption, all the crops in the farms were destroyed by the floods and with predictions of extremely hot weather and potential drought from the Meteorology department, we are staring at a possible food crisis towards the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025.

Without a permanent source of water, growing crops is going to be hard and women and girls will also have to trek far in search of clean water for their families.

Drilling a borehole in Kitui would bring a solution to these challenges by ensuring that approximately 200 community members access clean, affordable drinking water from the borehole that would be drilled in our training centre.

This would also enable the Seed of Hope students to learn on agribusiness and climate and irrigation friendly crops thus enhancing their livelihoods. 

It would also enable the set up of a demonstration farm at the centre that would be used to train community members on irrigated crop production, good crop and animal husbandry and proper storage for their produce to enable them to generate income from their farms and small kitchen gardens.

The demonstration farm would also support our free lunch programme for all the students as well as generate income for the training centre to become self reliant.

The preliminary works for the drilling of the borehole have been completed including a hydrogeological survey that has identified the spots within the centre with viable water.

We have also got the licences from government authorising bodies namely Water Resources Management Authority (WARMA) and the County Government of Kitui allowing for the drilling of the borehole.

We have also contacted a local solar power and pumps corporate that is willing to support us with the pumping equipment for the borehole once we have been able to complete the drilling.

We therefore reach out to you, our valued supporters once again, requesting that you help us push this great initiative forward and turn around the lives of the community at our Kitui training  centre and change our training centre’s farm to be productive and generate income to support the operations of the centre.

Your donation makes all the difference and we greatly appreciate it!

Thank you for your continued support,