ENHANCE ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER & SANITATION

This is the report for the months of September, October and November. The long term objective of enabling 2000 and more families in Kangemi to access clean water and there has been further progress made for the last three months. First, the expansion of the water refill centre has been completed this has allowed the increase in the number of refills. In addition to this, a bottle water rinser was added to improve the cleanness of water and bottles.

The number of uptake water refills has increased from an average of 60 households per month to 110 households. The new members also increased from 180 previously to 317 an increase of 137 new households.  Some of the new customers have come from the neighbouring towns, this implies that the project is doing well and the potential is there. There have also been sessions every Saturday to train the communities on the importance of hygiene and sanitation. 

EMERGENCE OF NEW CHALLENGES.

These challenges have slowed down the project, they include: increase in taxes by the government, which has led to the increase in prices for bottles and handmade bottle pumps, this has slowed down the project because now more funds are needed to reach the target of providing cleaning water to 2000 households. Another challenge is that road construction has made the water even dirtier. Our goal is to ensure that the community receives clean water safe for drinking and home usage which is one of the Sustainable Development goals we want to achieve.

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