The Ongako Primary School is in the Ongako village which is in the Omoro County and the Ongako Subcounty.

The Awoo Primary School is located in Gulu District and in Lakwana Sub-County of northern Uganda. The school has 442 boys and 368 girls, a total of 810 pupils.

The school’s only source of water was a well at the nearby IDP camp. The school had 5 toi

Our first well in Tanzania came about after being approached by a group from Florida led by Gay and Ronnie Rose. The Rose’s had raised some money in Florida and realized they needed help negotiating with drillers in Tanzania. We started talking to th

Located on the top of Mt. Elgon in Uganda are three adjacent schools that had UN-supplied rainwater-harvesting tanks as their only source of water. One of the schools is the Leonard Cheshire School for Disabled Children. Another is the St. Joseph’s

The Alito Leper Primary School is located in the Apac District and in Alito Sub-County of northern Uganda.The school was originally located near a center the treated people with leprosy, which is where the name is derived from. In October 2008, Drop

The Kakindu Primary School is located in the Kiyuni sub-county of the Mubende district and has 315 pupils. In Lira, due in part to the war, people tend to live more densely. But here in other more rural areas of Uganda, people live in smaller communi

Located in the Lira District of northern Uganda, Amach Primary School was a recipient of one of our complete water systems. The well was installed in 2008 and the rest of the system soon followed.

The following was taken from the hydro-geological re

Located in the Adekokwok Sub-County of the Lira District of northern Uganda, Adwila Primary School has 966 pupils; 473 boys and 493 girls. The well was completed in May 2008.

Before we installed the well, there were two previous water sources, bot

The Lukome Secondary School was one of our first projects in the Gulu District of Northern Uganda. The school is located in the Bungatira sub-county. Although the enrollment numbers are often smaller at secondary schools than primary schools, we feel

Although Drop in the Bucket was initially formed as a clean water charity, we quickly became a clean water and sanitation charity, as we realized very quickly that clean water was only part of the solution. The link between education, gender issues a

This School of 2100 was originally set up by the Salvation Army who had later turned it over to the local community. When we arrived the school was without water and sanitation and the children had to walk over a mile for the nearest water source. Th

The well at Mudodo was completed in conjunction with our associates from Australia who installed a roundabout pump on the well. This was our first roundabout pump. The pictures show the roundabout being fitted to the well.

In 2007 Drop in the Bucket visited the Masafu Primary School in Uganda. They had a well installed that had been set up using an old gas pump. The pump was starting to fail and also consumed water at a greater rate than the wells recharge rate.
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The Ongica Primary School is in the Adekokwok sub-county in the Lira district of Uganda. The school has 653 pupils; 314 boys and 339 girls. The toilets at the school were in bad shape, so along with the new well we also installed toilets, septics, a

The Starch Factory Primary School was set up by the local community to educate children living in the IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camps. The UN set up the camps to house refugees from the 21-year-long guerilla war. A lot of the people living h

The Alapata Primary School is located in Alela village which is in the Alapata parish in the Batta sub-county of Dokolo, Uganda. This school has 839 pupils, which consist of 425 boys and 414 girls. Before Drop in the Bucket drilled this well the scho