It is a shallow well or borehole supplied with pumps that bring up to the surface clean water ready to use or drink. A water well can provide a whole village with clean water saving them from diseases such as: cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio and a lot more preventable health risks.
Category:Shallow Well
Project Location:
- Ekama Village, Kakamega County, Kenya
Description of the place:
- An extensive sparsely populated area with semi-permanent houses. The village is connected with a dry weather road.
Description of the project:
- It is a shallow well or borehole supplied with pumps that bring up to the surface clean water ready to use or drink.
- A water well can provide a whole village with clean water saving them from diseases such as: cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio and a lot more preventable health risks.
- 4,000 children can be saved daily from death if they were given access to clean water, according to UNICEF.
- 200 million hour can be saved for women and children spend every day collecting water, it is a huge waste of their valuable time where they can use it to study, work or even take care of their families.
- Also when wells built near schools, it increase attendance.
Water source:
- A seasonal water spring 600 m far away from the village
No. of Beneficiaries:
- 595 Person
