Buwaida

Project Overview

Buwaida is a rural community of approximately 1,300 people. We built our water borehole next to the local school, which has 450 students and 50 teaching staff. The previous water source for the students and wider community was a shallow dug well that regularly dried up due to the number of users. There had been many cases of water borne diseases in the community, including typhoid, dysentery and E.coli due to the surface water being contaminated. This laid a big burden on the already poor families because of the frequent visits they were having to make to the health centre and the medical bills they were having to cover, as well as the students missing school lessons due to illness.