Laminogwiri Community School – Where the Drop in the Bucket Well Drilling Team Made New Friends for Life
Laminogwiri – Where Drop in the Bucket well drilling Team made a new friend for life When your work involves traveling to remote villages and providing them with clean water, it is easy to make new friends. But sometimes the people the Drop in the Bucket well drilling team meet become our lifelong friends. That […]
Layik West – a man wanted to get his village water so he ran for office
Layik West – Where the lack of clean water causes people to fight. Layik West in Uganda has many needs! The village lacks basic amenities like a school, a health center, drivable roads or any kind of police presence. But above all, the community’s biggest issue was their lack of clean water. At the time […]
Five Months of Drilling in Iganga, Uganda
< Five Months of Drilling in Iganga, Uganda The DROP drilling team just returned from five months of drilling in Iganga, Uganda. This district is in the south-eastern part of the country. As usual, we encountered more than our fair share of challenges. Complicated underground rock formations made drilling extremely frustrating. Deluges of rain had […]
Akecha B Village – Where Clean Water Helped a Woman Regain her Dignity
Akecha B – Where Clean Water Helped a Woman Regain Her Dignity Akecha B village was not an easy place to reach. The only road was more of a footpath than an actual road, so the village was fairly isolated. It was in this village that we met a grandmother named Balvina Akullu. Balvina is […]
Skyrocketing Food and Fuel Prices Impact the Most Vulnerable.
Skyrocketing Food and Fuel Prices Impact the Most Vulnerable Western news outlets are reporting daily on the direct impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There are global economic ramifications that are wreaking havoc on the vulnerable communities in Africa and are impacting our ability to do our work. News outlets throughout sub-Saharan Africa are reporting […]
Ngom Rom: And the Dream of Clean water for All!
Ngom Rom – “Places are the same” Ngom Rom is a small village located about 25 kms outside Gulu city. The name Ngom Rom, when translated into English, means “Places are the same”. But one thing that separated Ngom Rom from other places was that it had no clean water. When Drop in the Bucket […]
Celebrate World Water Day with a village in Uganda
Today is World Water Day Happy World Water Day From Africa Today is World Water Day and we are in Apur Ki Opko, in Uganda. Apur Ki Opko is a village named after its lack of water. The village of Apur Ki Opoko is filled with the sounds of people playing instruments, singing and dancing, […]
How The Lack Of Clean Water Made Me Drop Out of School
Wii Aceng Primary School Now Has a Working Water Well The water situation in Te-Aceng village could best be described as challenging. Consensus among hydrologists said it was unlikely that anyone would be able to drill a well in the area. This was reinforced by the fact that over the years several organizations had […]
Mother AK Memorial Nursery and Primary- A School with a Dirty Water and Deadly Snake Problem
A School in Africa with a Dirty Water and Deadly Snake Problem The Mother AK Memorial Nursery and Primary school is located next to the Otumpili Day and Boarding School. They are the only schools within a 20 km radius. Mother AK Memorial is both a kindergarten and a primary school more through necessity than […]
Pakeyo Health Center II: Where Young Patients Had To Cross Busy Roads for Water
A Health Center with No Clean Water Mercy Aloyo is a fifth grade (primary five) student from Tobi, Uganda, who has just come down with Malaria. Malaria is a parasitic disease carried by mosquitoes that causes flu-like symptoms and can result in serious problems or even death without treatment. Mercy walks about 2 miles (3km) […]