Back in late September I headed out to Uganda where I started working with the village of Lubajja on the shores of Lake Wamala in Mityana District where I am trying to help them develop their village through the use of safer water supplies and improved sanitation. The people of this village have lives which revolve around the lake: they catch fish here to sell and to eat; they use the lake as their water supply to drink, to cook and to wash; and they are also at times known to use the lake as a toilet. Even though the village does have pit latrines these are not adequate for the setting and disease readily enters the lake causing diarrhoea, typhoid and at times cholera. These people do not have the knowledge or the capital to get out of this vicious cycle that seems them polluting the water only to end up drinking the diseased water.

This is where you and I come in; I have the knowledge to enable them to harvest rainwater, to fix their borehole and to install eco-sanitation toilets and I have the man power on the ground to ensure the right training and sensitisation is given to this community. You have the power to enable this to happen by a small donation to the village through this website. A single toilet costs only £100, while a water tank costs £300.

The money raising will then be given to the village as a rotating fun such that they can set up a business charging people around 12p a day for 80 litres of water a day, while the business would also collect and then sell urine as a fertilizer at around £1.66 for 20 litres.  This would mean the village will have safer drinking water and better sanitation, improved employment through the project, and give the village a product to sell, while at the same time giving the village a real way of raising funds (up to £5,000 per year) to develop and lift themselves out of poverty. As a rotating fund the money will be repaid to the charity over the course of time, around 18-24 months, and at that point the money will be used to help another village on the shores of Lake Wamala, of which there are twenty in total. At the same time on-going support will be provided to Lubajja to help them grow through there business in a way they want to grow. So, a small donation end up helping 20 communities and thousands of people.

Thank you in advance for any donation you make. Every penny counts and the villagers will be eternally grateful.

Ian.