Keeping Communities near South Sudan’s Border safe from Ebola
When Communities Step Up: Protecting the South Sudan Border Over the past several months, the humanitarian landscape in East Africa has changed dramatically. Significant reductions in international assistance, including cuts to USAID funding, have left many organizations with fewer resources to respond to emerging public health threats. This includes the current Ebola outbreak in Uganda […]
The Current Cholera and Ebola Outbreaks in Uganda and South Sudan
A number of people have reached out to us in recent days asking about the current Ebola outbreak and whether we had any updates to share. Because this is not the kind of newsletter we would normally send, we wanted to provide a brief update on what we are seeing on the ground and how […]
Mwendanfuko Primary School: How Clean Water Helps Keep Children in School
At Mwendanfuko Primary School in Uganda, there is a joy of learning that is so tangible you can almost feel it as soon as you get to the school grounds. It’s there in the way children greet visitors, in the pride of the parents, and in the commitment of teachers who show up every day […]
Your Last Chance to Make a Difference in 2025
As 2025 comes to an end, we’re thinking less about resolutions – and more about what real change actually looks like. In Nimule, South Sudan, it looks like this: a girl who once missed school every month now fully present and participating in class; young woman, newly graduated, choosing to give back by becoming a […]
How a Well and a Village Savings Group Transformed a Village in Uganda
Things were finally starting to look up for Covenant Nursery and Primary School, a small village school in northern Uganda. For the first time, the school had electricity — a true achievement for a rural community. Electricity meant the classrooms had light, teachers could charge their phones, and staff no longer had to travel into […]
Lakwatomer Village: A New Borehole Changes Daily Life
Lakwatomer Village and One Woman’s Fight for Clean Water Since the early 1980s, families in Lakwatomer village in Uganda have relied on a single hand-dug waterhole. In those days, few people lived in the area. “Back then, very few people lived here,” recalls Okello Okello. “But now, with new settlements, the population has increased and […]
Covenant Nursery and Primary School: How Clean Water Turned a Crisis Around
Things were finally starting to look up for Covenant Nursery and Primary School, a small village school in northern Uganda. For the first time, the school had electricity — a true achievement for a rural community.Electricity meant the classrooms had light, teachers could charge their phones, and staff no longer had to travel into town just to print […]
Paminano-A Cell: When Water Became a Currency—and How a Borehole Changed Everything
Paminano-A Cell is a small community in Uganda where the value of water once went far beyond thirst. During long stretches of scarcity—and even on ordinary days when the source failed—neighbors literally lent and borrowed water as if it was a currency. Some repayments even came with “interest.” This is the story of how a […]
“Rescue Your Husband” — How a VSLA Helped a Small Market Thrive in Bidin B
In the rural village of Bidin B, in northern Uganda’s Nwoya District, women and girls once spent hours each day walking long distances to fetch water—often from unsafe, open waterholes shared with livestock. This wasn’t just exhausting—it was time taken away from growing food, caring for children, or earning an income. For households already living […]
Nawangisa Primary School Where Walking For Water Presented Hidden Dangers
Edith Bajanga, head teacher of the Nawangisa primary school in Iganga, Uganda Nawangisa Primary School Where Walking For Water Presented Hidden Dangers The Nawangisa Primary School in Iganga, Uganda urgently needed a water well according to the head teacher Edith Bajanga. Without a clean water source, Nawangisa only had two options. The first was a […]