Naibiri Health Center II and how one nurse’s persistence paid off!
Meet Kamoyi Wilson a nurse at the Naibiri Health Center II in Uganda Even as a child Kamoyi Wilson knew what he wanted to do with his life. He wanted to help people! His dream was to one day become a doctor, so in school he focused on science classes. “Helping the sick has always […]
World Refugee Day 2017
Today is World Refugee Day. Drop in the Bucket’s team spent the day in the Palabek refugee settlement in Uganda where we are working to provide clean water to the 31,000 South Sudanese who have fled their homeland because of famine and conflict. More than three million people, or a third of South Sudan’s population, have […]
Check out our latest Video
Award winning music video director Nathan Karma Cox recently came out to Uganda to check out our work firsthand. He put together this video with graphics from our friend Rodrigo Gava. The music is a remix of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song “Under the Earth” that they were kind enough to give us to use […]
Progress at Madera
We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has donated to our fundraising campaign to provide clean water and toilets at the Madera School for the Blind in Uganda. This is the largest project we have ever taken on for a single school and it is considerably more expensive than anything we […]
Madera School For the Blind
Help Shine a New Light for Blind Children in Uganda Every child deserves a clean and safe place to learn and play. Help us build a proper sanitation facility for the only School for the Blind in Uganda. For many parents in Uganda, just taking care of basic needs for themselves and their children can […]
This is Winnie Ayute
Winnie Ayute (15 years), Agama Primary School: I’m in Primary Six and our school is one of the largest schools in the district. There are 790 pupils including 342 girls. Before Drop in the Bucket drilled a well on the school compound, nearest source of water was a swamp at the Agule village which is […]
Check out our Holiday Video
We just launched our new fundraising platform that allows people to contribute the individual items that it takes to build a well, and our good friends at Kilograph helped us put together this great Holiday video. You can check out the video here Or go straight to this link to see how you can help.
Gardner Denver partnership news
Industrial machinery giant Gardner Denver has donated a state-of-the-art drilling compressor to Drop in the Bucket! This top of the line compressor has found a new home at our compound in Soroti, Uganda, and will be instrumental in speeding up water drilling efforts. Thanks to this partnership, we will get more women off the path […]
Sean’s lemonade stand
Sean decided to set up a lemonade stand to benefit “Drop In The Bucket” over the summer. His little sister, Isabella, helped too. He even had a mascot! On separate weekends, Sean set up stands at: City Hall Park: At his old public school: At Rockaway Beach And he even educated tourists about “Drop In […]
Soap For South Sudan
Recent violence in South Sudan has resulted in an estimated 10,000 deaths and over 950,000 people being forced to flee their homes. Right now these people are now living in temporary shelters called internally displaced persons (IDP) camps which have been set up in or around South Sudan. The IDPs often contain over 50,000 people […]