No surgery without water

This statement seems absurd. But in the past, the staff at the emergency practice in Nyakihanga in south-western Uganda could not even offer their patients a glass of water. The fact that this emergency practice exists is already a success story. Everyone has worked together. The village church provided soil from its property to make the bricks. Everyone helped to build. They collected medical materials from various places and institutions. Only there was no water nearby.

Water is life

The local council asked our partner organization KDWSP for guidance: "Together we built a rainwater tank and installed water filters. Now there is water for bathing the newborn babies, for drinking and for cleaning the treatment rooms."

The patients of Nyakihanga are grateful and happy about this water tank. But there is still a lack of clean water in many villages. Children and women have to walk for hours every day to fetch contaminated water from rivers and lakes. This means that the children are on dangerous paths instead of going to school.

Will you help us to improve prospects?