Posts Tagged ‘Clean Water’
Earthquake/ Tsunami in Japan
Monday, March 14th, 2011Friends,I am overwhelmed with emails regarding the crisis in Japan and what we intend to do to help out. We have developed our model around helping communities develop, but recently we aquired designs for creating natural sand filters for immediate response to natural disasters like this one. The need for clean water after such a [...]
Uganda Well Projects Update #4
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011Friends, We are working to conclude projects 2 & 3. Both have been a tremendous success. With current funding we have provided water to two communities with a capacity of almost 5000 people. Total cost will be around $21,000 in total for projects, or a cost of $4.20 per person affected! http://www.facebook.com/album If we raise [...]
Uganda Well Projects – Update #1
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011Global H2O has TWO new well projects currently going on in Uganda. This will provide water for two communities and around 4,000 people. We want to thank everyone for all the donations and the for the great fundraisers that were put together in the US and Europe. Here is the latest update: James Wilde and [...]
Project Report From Uganda Well Project
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010The project undertaken was designed to bring water to a community which has begun relocating back from the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps in northern Uganda. Since the insurgency ended, hundreds of thousands of people are relocating back to villages which had been destroyed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). LRA according to Wikipedia: The [...]
Project Completed! Update
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Dear all- The borehole and pump are in place. We left Kitgum last night and arrived in Kampala in a crippled Landcruiser. The spring of the rear left suspension broke while we were in the bush. The local population of the area is 8000 people with 2 boreholes now, one of which is ours. The [...]
First well in Uganda is complete!
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Everything on the well is finished. Team heads back tomorrow. We will be posting photos, videos and stories very soon. First well is complete, now time to start planning the next ones. This first project has shown us how badly this area of the world needs our help. Please help us by donating.
Uganda Well Project – SUCCESS!!
Monday, February 15th, 2010Dear friends, It has been a long journey but we finally have drilled into a good water source. The PVC pipe is in and the spill plate and pump will be installed within the next two days. We also located a school that is without water. We will be looking into a possible drill site [...]
Uganda Well Project Update
Monday, February 8th, 2010Dear friends, I am sitting in a steamy Kampala internet cafe at the end of the preparation for the drilling project in northern Uganda. Today and yesterday I met with local contacts to fix all transportation and logisitics issues around getting to the drilling site and get the wells drilled. For those of you who [...]
