COLLECTING FREE WATER

A clean water supply is a constant problem. In many of the major towns water is provided to a stand-pipe. Even so, an English person would not be advised to drink it!

In Kabubbu the water supply was from a local stream. Children collected water in 20 litre containers and carried them home. You definitely wouldn’t want to drink from here! But this was all the local people had until the British Airways former ‘Change for Good’ programme installed a fresh water borehole for the Kabubbu Community Primary School. The local community could use this before and after school hours. This was quickly followed by a programme of four more boreholes and more recently Samaritan’s Purse International (SPI) has provided a grant as part of an integrated missions programme through the Kabubbu Community Church for a further four boreholes. There are now nine in total.

We are currently undertaking a Bio Sand Filter programme to 400 households in the community, a further project supported by SPI as part of an integrated missions programme through the Kabubbu Community Church. This project provides safe drinking water ‘on tap’ for each household from even the foulest of water.

There is a continuing need for collecting and storing rainwater. We already harvest and store over 120,000 litres of rainwater. Every house in Kabubbu which has a corrugated tin roof needs gutters and a 1,000 litre storage tank to provide a truly local water source. Gutters and a 1,000 litre tank on a concrete base costs £250

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