9 March 2021 - Water Project Update
There’s nothing more essential to life on Earth than water and our ability to overcome water scarcity.
In Uganda water is scarce. People are struggling to access the clean water they need for drinking, cooking, bathing, hand-washing, and growing their food. Globally, over 700 million people lack access to clean drinking water. Every day, over 800 children die from dirty water, due to diarrhoea caused by poor water, sanitation and hygiene and scarce or unreliable water and sanitation facilities in many communities around the world.
Well donated by the fundraising joint efforts for Green Mountain Initiative through Biocultural Conservation Institute on 27th Feb 2021
The impacts of water scarcity affect families and their communities. Without clean, easily accessible water, they can become locked in poverty for generations. Children drop out of school and parents struggle to make a living. Women and children are worst affected - children because they are more vulnerable to diseases of dirty water and women and girls because they often bear the burden of carrying water for their families for many hours each day.
Queues to use the new wells
Access to clean water changes everything; it’s a stepping stone to development. When people gain access to clean water, they are better able to practise good hygiene and sanitation.
Children enjoy good health and are more likely to attend school. Parents put aside their worries about water-related diseases and lack of access to clean water. Instead, they can focus on watering their crops and livestock and diversifying their incomes.
Joint Efforts for Green Mountain Initiative in partnership with Biocultural Conservation Institute is glad to have completed 1 out 11 water springs estimated to be worked on in local Communities bordering Northern sector of Bwindi impenetrable national park South Western Uganda.
Think about changing lives of local Communities who contribute much to Conservation of Bwindi impenetrable national park and it's habitat (gorillas) to access clean water by donating below