Institute Water for Africa
As a non-profit organisation, we are dedicated to the vital mission of bringing clean water to the poorest of the poor in Africa.
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In our latest newsletter, we report on how we secured the water supply for a bush clinic and a school in Zambia. Learn more about our plans for a new irrigation project that aims to bring hope to
Weltladen Loffenau has made a generous donation of 2,300 euros to the non-profit organisation Institute Water for Africa (IWFA). The donation supports an important irrigation project in Zambia, which
Zambia's government has declared a state of emergency due to the exceptional drought. We were there ourselves from March to April and were able to see for ourselves.
December to March is the rainy season.
Today we were in Mulungwe in the Mkushi District in Zambia. The Bethel Christian Centre (BCC) free church in Lusaka asked us if we could find out where it is worth drilling for groundwater on their site in Mulungwe.
Today we visited the Omugo refugee camp again after half a year. Now the church has a corrugated iron roof with guttering and a 10,000 litre rain barrel instead of a thatched roof.
On this occasion 48 church leaders from the refugee camp came together and participated in a training. The speaker was Ray Basset from Canada, who came to Uganda at his own expense to support our work.
Our new newsletter is out now - with reports from Kenya, our next outreach locations and what we want to tackle afterwards.
In April we conducted a workshop on water treatment at Eldoret Kids.
The former workshop participants have now met for a follow-up meeting under the leadership of Jannis Wurster. The participants report a high demand for treated water among the village population. The equipment used to produce sodium hypochlorite is in regular use.
Sodium hypochlorite is added to contaminated water. It kills viruses and bacteria.
The fair trade shop 's Lädle e.V.' in Loffenau supports our project "Drinking water for a nursery and a school" in the north of Uganda. With this project, the Nursery & Primary School in Adyangowe will receive a well with a hand pump. 259 pupils and also the village population will then have clean water.
We would be happy if you could also help to finance the project.
This week we received a call for help from missionary friends in Ilakala, South Kivu region, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 3271 inhabitants share 2 taps to get water. The missionary couple writes:
"This water catchment was done years back by an NGO "Mercy Corps" to help the local community and the only thing they could do was to set up two public taps. That was the only thing they could do. They left the water to the local community to take care and do whatever else it could require for the repair and distribution. After that they have no other obligation to the water.
The village has 4 kilometers with a population of 3,271. The two taps where to fetch water are not enough to serve that population. The water is taken care of by the local community under the leadership of the local leader (chief). They don't have any funding or assistance from anyone.
So the great need is the distribution of the water into the village through pipes along the main road and build a few more taps so that many people can access water."
The missionary couple asked us if we could expand the water supply for the population so that it meets all the requirements for a village with 3271 inhabitants.
A site visit by a hydraulic engineer is essential to assess what needs to be done to make the water supply fit for everyday use. The travel costs for the site visit are 2,400 euros.
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