By Tom Webber | BridgIT Water Foundation U.S. Development Director
Thanks to our extremely generous donors, BridgIT Water Foundation was able to complete 7 well refurbishments in the last quarter. Thank you so much. Please see the attached photographs that show both the construction activity and the completed repairs. The 5,550 beneficiaries are extremely grateful for the gift of fresh, clean water, and it shows in these images.
Testimonials from beneficiaries provide truly heartfelt reactions to these interventions:
1. "I am a single mother living with these 2 children. Many times I had to painfully send them to walk alone 2 km to the swamp to collect water. Of course I was always worried that something bad can happen to them along the way, but I had no alternative. Whenever they delayed coming back, my worries would rise further since there are many incidences of child kidnapping for rituals in this village.
This well is a few meters from our house. I can watch them walk to and from the well. I don't have to worry about their safety any more. I thank all who have supported the repair of this well." Jesca, 32, Bamusuta A Village
2. "I am the area local leader. More than 4 years ago, this well broke down. We brought a technician to repair it, but he told us it would cost a huge amount of money that we could not raise to buy new parts. The villagers had not been trained before about collecting user fees. We lacked organisation.
Now we are very glad to again use our well and also work together to maintain it into the future through our water user committee and other information we received from the training." Hassan, 73, Bamusuta B Village
3. "I am a village health volunteer in this village. I am supposed to sensitize people to practice good hygiene including drinking clean water, washing hands regularly, etc. My work has been difficult since everyone had an excuse since our only source of clean water was nonfunctional for 5 years! My family too was struggling with the same challenge.
We thank SUUBI and all their partners for helping us to repair the well. With easier access to clean water, people will have no excuses, and proper hygiene will be practiced." Maria, 43, Kyajja Village
BridgIT Water Foundation and its implementing partner, Suubi Community Projects Uganda, have a list of many more villages with broken water wells, and we will continue this crowdfunding campaign in an effort to bring safe, clean water to more people in rural Uganda.
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