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

This Primary School of 719 children is in a very remote location on the outskirts of the Lira District. The School is found in Lira District and in Amach Sub-County. The installed well brought much needed sanitation and water to a hard hit area.

The Alebere Primary School is located in the Lira District and in Barr Sub-County. During our November 2008 trip, we visited the while the well was being built. The drillers had already hit water and were setting on the cement apron the day we took t

The Lugazi primary school and orphanage has 1500 pupils including 348 orphans. Drop in the Bucket drilled a well for the school in 2008.

Located in the Lira District of northern Uganda and in Amach Sub-County. Akany had only 224 pupils but employed a very dedicated staff with children very eager to learn. The school was in an isolated, remote part of Lira and although we normally don

Located in the Amach Sub-county of the Lira District of northern Uganda, Amokoge Primary School has 622 pupils; 296 boys and 326 girls. The well was completed in April 2008.

Located in the Lira District and in Amach Sub-County of northern Uganda, Agali Primary School has 683 pupils; 399 boys and 286 girls. The well was completed in April 2008.

Before the well, their only source of water was a shallow, hand dug well wh

Our first well in Mozambique was in a remote village called Maguezane. After a cholera outbreak had killed almost a third of the village’s inhabitants in just a year, we knew we had to do something fast. The villagers were quick to form a water commi

Our well at Lira Secondary School was commissioned in January 2008 and completed in March 2008. It was the first complete system installed by our drillers without present supervision from any member of Drop in the Bucket. We feel like they performed

The Ayile Primary School has 519 pupils and is also located in a very remote part of the Aromo Sub-County in the Lira district. The school feels very strongly that with a well in place, the enrollment will increase significantly. This has certainly b

Located in Erute in the Lira District of northern Uganda, Ateri Primary School had 727 children without access to clean water. Since the well’s installation in March of 2008, school enrollment has gone up significantly.

The well at the Alworo Primary School of 593 children was completed in February 2008. The toilets, septics, hand-washing station, roundabout pump and underground reservoir tank soon followed. This was also the first school at which we upgraded the do