[Completed] Provide access to clean water

With you, we enable more than 2.4 million days of access to clean drinking water in Sierra Leone and Kenya.
This is how your help arrives:
  • Access and short distances to safe drinking water
  • Construction, monitoring and repair of local water infrastructure
Our Impact
  • Improved health & nutritional situation
  • Increased quality of life & time for other activities
Our partners

Our partners in the effort to supply clean drinking water:

  • Sierra Leone: Action against Hunger
  • Kenya: FundiFix
Did you know?

Clean drinking water often means that girls and women can go to school more often. This is because women and girls are traditionally responsible for fetching water and often have to travel long distances to do so. If these journeys are shortened, the time can be used to attend school.
And now?

Together with you, we want to do even more good.

Here you can find out what happens next with your funding project.

Where we help

Water is the basis of life and that is precisely why everyone needs and should have access to clean drinking water. To advance this, we have joined forces with our partners in Kenya and Sierra Leone.

Why Kenya

17 million Kenyans in rural areas do not have access to a basic water supply and about half of them (8 million) rely on surface water for their drinking water needs (source: FundiFix ). Unclean water can be particularly dangerous for children, as they are more susceptible to infectious diseases and diarrhea. A good and intact infrastructure is necessary for a comprehensive supply of clean drinking water. In Kenya, this infrastructure already exists, but is not intact everywhere and therefore needs to be repaired.

Why Sierra Leone

The country, weakened by civil war and Ebola, suffers from destroyed or missing infrastructure. In addition to economic and structural difficulties, the population in Sierra Leone also struggles with the insecure food situation. This is the main reason for chronic malnutrition in the population. In addition, the country struggles with one of the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world. Reasons for these high rates include diarrheal diseases, which are due to the lack of access to clean drinking water and sanitation facilities.

2,460,000Days access to clean drinking water

What we have achieved

Together with our partner organizations in Kenya and Sierra Leone, we have set ourselves clear goals to give as many local people as possible access to clean drinking water. With your support, we have come a long way towards achieving this goal.

How we work

We have teamed up with those who are experts in helping around the world: verified national and international aid organizations. We trust them because we can see exactly how they use the money. This way we can be sure that our help reaches the right people.

Our selected partners in the supply of clean drinking water are FundiFix and Action Against Hunger.

Through repairs to intact water infrastructure

FundiFix monitors the pipelines, hand pumps and water points in several regions of Kenya and repairs them when necessary.
repair of the water infrastructure

Reliable access to water also means shorter distances to the nearest well and a lower risk of contracting diseases spread through contaminated water. Join us and help us and FundiFix to rebuild and maintain the water infrastructure in the project region.
About the project

By analyzing the weak points in the water infrastructure, FundiFix can target repair work and resources. Constant system monitoring enables data-based decisions to be made, reducing the average repair time for wells and hand pumps from one month to 1 to 3 days.
Achieving something together

With your support, not only will wells be repaired, but you will also enable reliable access to water. This also means a better nutritional situation thanks to available water for agriculture.
FundiFix

FundiFix is ​​a Kenyan social enterprise founded by Oxford University in 2014. Its main goal is to maintain and repair the country's water infrastructure in order to provide the population with clean drinking water.
Repairing Wells in Sierra Leone

Our partner Action Against Hunger repairs wells and helps the newly founded WASH committees (water, sanitation and hygiene) by providing training so that they can repair and maintain the wells independently.
Achieving something together

Every well repaired secures the water supply for many people. With your support, you are helping to prevent infectious and diarrhoeal diseases from spreading so quickly. Join in and help give the people of Sierra Leone access to clean drinking water.
About the project

In the Action Against Hunger project in Sierra Leone, several wells are being repaired. It is not only the reliable availability of water that is important, but also its quality. The WASH committees therefore ensure that this is checked regularly.
Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger has been active in Sierra Leone since 1991 and works with the country to build sustainable livelihoods. This includes the treatment of malnourished children and access to clean water.
Phase 3

This is how it continues

After successful funding in Kenya and Sierra Leone, we are continuing the project in Kenya and providing support in Madagascar. Click here to read about the current campaign for clean drinking water with Action Against Hunger and FundiFix .

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This is how it continues
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photo credits

  • Enable Access to Clean Water: Action Against Hunger
  • Slider: Christoph Köstlin & Action Against Hunger
  • This is how it continues: Fundifix