Holiday cards now in stock
It’s that most wonderful time of the year, and the stores are all about to be filled with people frantically shopping for that perfect gift for that special someone. This year you can avoid the crowded stores and pick up the perfect gift without having to brave the traffic or the cold weather. We are […]
Laughter is the Best Medicine Benefit Show
Having been a huge Mighty Boosh fan for over a decade, I was beyond excited when Noel Fielding agreed to perform for our charity Drop in the Bucket. Then when I was told that all of The Mighty Boosh would be performing, I almost dropped the phone in shock. Bobcat Goldthwait was hilarious and after […]
International Day of the Girl 2013
Gulu High School is a mixed boarding school in northern Uganda, with a population of 1065 students: 464 girls and 601 boys. In 2007 Drop in the Bucket first visited this school and found that near the main part of the school there were only toilets for the boys. The girls had to either walk […]
Abdallah Linos’ story
Abdallah Linos is 31 years old and works as a teacher at the Oguruny Primary School in the village of Oguruny in South Sudan. He has been teaching at the school since 2010. The school has only six classes, P1-P6, with 408 pupils. When the civil war broke out, Abdallah left the village to live […]
In Honor of Mother’s Day
I recently watched a segment of the HBO show Vice about the Fat Farms of Mauritania. In it, a reporter traveled to the West African country to profile the ancient practice of brutally force-feeding young girls to fatten them up to make them more attractive for marriage. In their culture, a fat woman is seen […]
Day Middle School Temecula & Skyetime
Students from the Day Middle School in Temecula, CA decided to help children in Africa gain access to clean water after learning about the water crisis from Skye McNeil, founder of the website Skyetime.com. She explained that children in Africa spend hours every day walking 6 to 7 miles to fetch water for their families […]
World Water Day 2013 newsletter
This message was originally posted as a Drop in the Bucket newsletter, to receive updates like this please sign up for our mailing list. Hello Everyone, As you may have heard, today, March 22nd is World Water Day! When Drop in the Bucket formed back in 2006, 1.1 billion people were without access to clean […]
World Water Day 2013
Almost 1 billion people on the planet lack access to safe drinking water. Dirty water and poor sanitation kill more children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined. Every 20 seconds a child dies from a lack of clean water or sanitation. More people have access to a cell phone than a toilet. Do we just […]
Beads that transform lives
These paper beads are handmade by women in the IDP (internally displaced Persons) in Uganda. While most people are familiar with the term refugee, IDP is less know. The difference is a refugee is someone that was forced to flee their home country to go and live in a different country. An IDP is someone […]
Article from Uganda’s New Vision Newspaper- Water project lures girls back to school
Publication date: Tuesday, 4th January, 2011 By Chris Ocowun WITH a polythene bag slung across the shoulders, her eyes pry around the school compound like a stranger. Before entering the classroom, she walks to the far end where the school toilets are located. Later, she emerges with a grin and dashes to class. What is […]