Kashasha spring

In Kashasha, 40 households and members of a primary school, a secondary school, a hospital and a church were sharing a dysfunctional spring in the community (approx 1,600 people). Despite having multiple water eyes, it was not yielding its full potential.

An inception meeting was held and a Project Implementation Committee appointed, whose members received training in governance and safeguarding. Members of the community contributed raw materials and hard labour to the construction.

On 28th September the spring was commissioned by Bishop Dan Zoreka, who commended “the cordial relationship between church and government in the social service sector, but most of all the WATSAN Programme for the quality work well done, and the UK Support Group for their selfless heart and for the financial assistance”.

Bwanga Hill spring reconstruction, borehole and school project

This project was the focus for our 2021 dispersed Walks for Water, which raised over £28k. Bwanga is a parish located 35 miles South West of Rukungiri in the sub-county of Nyarushanje. It consists of a community of 876 people, mainly pupils and staff of a government aided, part-boarding secondary school, and a small kindergarten, both located adjacent to Bwanga church. In common with many schools in Uganda, the previous water supply was inadequate and inaccessible, and sanitation facilities were poorly constructed and overloaded.

Children at the local school had to collect water from a low-yielding spring, which was 1.2 km away from the school, missing much of their education in the process. Sanitation facilities at the school were limited to 1 toilet for 105 for boys and 1 to 46 for girls.

The project was an integrated water supply, sanitation, and health and hygiene educational intervention as follows:

  • Reconstruction of the low-yield spring
  • Sanitation improvements amongst the hill community, including sanitation platforms, hand-washing facilities, dish-drying racks, compost pits and bath shelters
  • Construction of three 30 cu. m. rainwater harvesting tanks drawing water from the roofs of the main school hall and the church, two for use by the school with at least one connected to the gravity-flow scheme
  • Repair of the faulty borehole supply
  • Construction at the school of two five-stance lined pit-latrines for students, with changing room for girls and urinal for boys, and a two-stance latrine for staff and a bath shelter for boys
  • Construction of a six-stance lined pit latrine at the church
  • A health and hygiene education programme will be undertaken in the school, at the church and in the immediate surrounding community, along with capacity-building and empowerment activities.

Work was completed in 2022: