These photos are of the spring in Nakitanza village, Uganda. It is shared by 160 families and innumerable animals. Local leaders and community members cry out to us for support to protect rural springs, which reduces the high incidence of water related diseases like diarrhoea, worm infections and skin infections, according to the district [...]
In this time of pandemic crisis we are all concerned about washing our hands frequently. For some people that is a privilege and for others it is a distant reality. In these days of a global pandemic, it is vitally important that everyone washes their hands regularly to protect themselves from the Coronavirus. It was World [...]
Reach the Children UK funds the installation of a generator at the Luwero Centre in Uganda. As the generator purred into action the lights flickered then burst bright, illuminating the office of Reach the Children Uganda at its Luwero Centre. Local children, fascinated by the advent of electric light in the village, hang around [...]
Earlier today this young girl would have queued to get the water for the family, and helped feed her baby sister who nestles on her back. There is precious little time for her to play or get an education. Her lot in life is sealed fetching water, tending siblings and many other chores and [...]
On World Water Day, Reach the Children UK is proud to work with its implementing partners in Kenya and Uganda, protecting springs in rural areas. Global World Water Day focuses attention on the importance of fresh water and advocates for the sustainable management of fresh water resources, which is a major focus of Reach [...]
Can you identify these trees and their fruit? All these fruit trees grow abundantly on Reach the Children Uganda’s Luwero Centre. The children in the local community pick and eat the fruit as they wait for their water containers to fill up with clean water. The recently completed borehole provides lots of clean water [...]
The 10,000 litre storage tank is lifted on to the raised platform at Reach the Children’s Luwero Centre near Kampala Uganda. This phase of the drilling of a borehole 57 metres deep in to the ground provides a good source of water that will be pumped into the raised storage tank. The elevated tank [...]
This has been a substantial investment from Reach the Children UK and America, providing basic water and power infrastructure for the 15 acre Luwero Centre which is owned and managed by Reach the Children Uganda. Their Board of Trustees includes two of Uganda's successful female entrepreneurs. The borehole is completed and the liner is [...]
Improved water and sanitation services are a key priority in the Uganda National Development Plan. The United Nations has also identified water and sanitation as a priority by designating it as one of their millennium development goals. Since 2001 responsibilities for hygiene and sanitation have been devolved between health, water and education departments which [...]
Water is the most precious commodity, essential for life and no one can live without it. We consume it, clean our food with it, cook our meals with it, wash our dishes with it, bathe and shower our bodies in it, wash our clothes in it, clean our homes with it, water our gardens [...]
