Bring clean water to 100 villages in Tanzania

Each borehole  takes between 12 and 24 days of hard labour to drill so selecting the sites with the best chance of success is critical.  Therefore we are delighted to work with Imperial College – UK to pilot their Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) technology to identify sites.  We use this in our preliminary survey, together with studying the vegetation and rocks, talking to the local community and using copper rods.  This has made our work much more efficient. 

Since 1^st July 2022 to 30^th June 2023, we have finished 31 boreholes to 31 locations providing water to an average of 24800 people in Kasulu District. Most boreholes (90%) are located or stationed at educational institutions by which each school accommodates an average of 800 students while the remaining (10%) of the boreholes are located at the community’s centers where public access water.

This has many impacts including:

• Increased hygiene to school students especially girls and homes of the beneficiaries,
• Reduced walking distance and time to students and community to collect water from the long way streams, the time which is then used for other development works,
• Improved academic performance to students in schools we provided water access,
• Increased the ability of the schools to establish and manage gardens to improve nutrition,
• Generally, there are the improvements in lives as water is ensuring health stability to the user and bring happiness to families.

There are still many clinics and villages which arehighly in need of clean water for use. One borehole costs £1,500. Little by little; we can bring water to all of our community to ensure well-being and prosperity.

Thank you again for your generosity in supporting this project.

Benedicto

Thank to generous donations from people like you we have funded a borehole and rope pump to bring water to the clinic and primary school at Kanazi, benefitting over 19,000 people. 

It costs only £1500 to build this, but saves so many people hours of time and discomfort carrying water long distances from the stream.

It seems crazy that in 2023 people are still lacking access to water, especially in clinics and schools, but unfortunately in rural Tanzania it is still very common and we have many more sites desperately needing water, so if you can help us bring water to more such sites it would be very much appreciated.

One example is Changalawe Village in Uvinza where over 3000 people currently carry water from a dirty stream. We have surveyed and identified a suitable location for a borehole, and will complete it as soon as we have the funds.

Thank you again for your generosity.

Benedicto