Institute Water for Africa
Welcome to the blog of our NGO, which is passionately committed to sustainable water projects in Africa. Millions of people in Africa have no access to clean drinking water, which has a serious impact on health, education and quality of life.
Our mission is to improve access to clean water in affected communities through adapted technologies and sustainable solutions. In our articles, you can find out more about the progress of our projects, the challenges we face and how you can help us create a better future for the people of Africa.
In the past few days, we have carried out an inspection on a site that has not been used for agriculture for more than 30 years and have taken soil samples that are examined in the laboratory for soil-physical parameters and nutrients.
After a good two weeks of work, the mission hospital Adi, DR. Congo, has running water again. The newly purchased centrifugal pump was installed in the pump house and connected to the old generator with a coupling.
The Kenyan CEF missionary Eva R. asked us to visit various locations in Kenya and to see if we could make a project there to improve the situation of the people.
We visited the village Irigino near Nairobi, Mwea a village surrounded by rice fields, the village Waimash at the northern edge of Mount Kenya National Park and another village.
The village of Rukaramu (S 03° 18' 43'' E 029° 17' 27'') is located in sight of the international airport of Bujumbura in a lowland plain. It consists of 150 houses built by the government. In each of them lives a family with an average of six family members. Each house has a small piece of land that can be used as a garden. The families are returnees from Tanzania who fled there during the civil war in Burundi.
This afternoon we went to Mukike in the highlands, a good hour from Bujumbura. There we met Vital from anamed Burundi. The villagers were informed about our visit. There was a warm welcome with official speech of the representative of Mukike. We brought along about 20 Moringa stenopetala plants.
Today, after 3 days of construction, the project in Muhingo was successfully completed. A branch was added to the existing water pipe. At its end a second tapping point was built. This shortens the daily time to fetch water considerably.
It has been in existence since 1981 - World Food Day or also known as World Hunger Day. It is intended to commemorate the founding of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) as part of the UN. Officially it is a day of commemoration.
Today the village chief of Rukaramu came to the office of our cooperation partner CCD Burundi. He reports that the Moringa seeds sown at the end of June have already become large plants.
As far as possible, Moringa seeds are already being used for water purification. The villagers would like us to come and show them what else can be done with the Moringa tree and plant more trees for all families.
You can help us with this.
After having visited the orphanage of CCD Burundi yesterday evening, we came back this morning to show the children how they can turn water into drinking water with PET bottles and sunlight.
Water purification, Moringa, water treatment as part of the site exploration trip, a visit to the village of Muhingo in northwest Burundi was on the agenda today. The village has about 700 inhabitants and only one public tap.
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