Nyakabale-Ausonzi
Project Snapshot
Country: Uganda
GPS Coordinates:
Latitude 1.800789
Longitude 31.894064
Impact:
Total Served: 600
Status: Completed (?)
Completion Date (or estimate): 03/14/2011
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The community of Nyakabale is home to 360 households which are spread out along a shallow valley in Kiryandongo district, Uganda. The land in Nyakabale is very fertile and the great majority of residents are farmers who spend their days tending to their crops. Many people grow tobacco as a cash crop and harvest maize, beans and cassava root to feed their families. Nyakabale also hosts a large trading center where locals can buy all sorts of items ranging from cooking oil to beauty products. The small store fronts are where people tend to gather to chat, debate or simply pass the time.
Although the trading center may have a wide selection of modern amenities, Nyakabale unfortunately lacks many of life’s basic necessities. There is no health center, no school, no electricity and no clean water. People must walk great distances to reach any of those services. Due to the limited access to
clean water, residents resort to collecting water from small, open pools which they often must share with animals. The water in these pools easily becomes contaminated because they are unprotected and it poses a great health risk to the population. Diarrheal diseases, such as typhoid, giardia and dysentery are often contracted and can prove fatal to young children. These and countless other diseases can be prevented simply through the provision of clean water.
Busoga Trust, our implementing partner, will be working with the people of Nyakabale to construct a shallow hand dug well and provide a safe source of water for hundreds of people.
In the video below, a woman from Nyakabale fills her jerry cans for the day. In a little over a month from now, this scene will be a thing of the past. No more long walks. No more dirty water. Life is about to change for this family and many others.
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Recent Project Updates
03/11/2011: The well is complete at Nyakabale, Uganda
The well in Nyakabale - Ausonzi is complete. The pump has been attached and clean, safe and abundant water is flowing!
We've added a ton of pictures from the site and this video of the community filling up their jerry cans for the first time. This is what hope looks likes!
Thanks again to Terri Clark and Friends for making it possible.
02/28/2011: Nyakabale-Ausonzi Well Digging Complete
The team has completed digging the well in Nyakabale-Ausonzi, Uganda. You can see from the pictures that the water is filling in nicely and the lining has been constructed.
Next steps include preparing the cap, sealing the well and attaching a pump!
02/10/2011: Nyakabale well construction has begun
We just received this video and photos of the construction process underway in Nyakabale, Uganda. You can begin to see the groundwater seeping into the new well already. It's hard work - that much is sure.
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Country Details
Uganda
Population: 27 million
- Lacking clean water: 36%
- Below poverty line: 37%
- Climate: Tropical; generally rainy with 2 dry seasons
- Languages: English (official), Ganda or Luganda
- Ethnic Groups: Baganda 17%, Ankole 8%, Basoga 8%, Iteso 8%, Bakiga 7%, Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Batoro 3%, Bunyoro 3%, Alur 2%
- Life Expectancy: 53 years
- Infant Mortality Rate: 65 deaths per 1000 live births
Partner Profile
Busoga Trust America
Our Approach
Busoga Trust America partners with local non-governmental organizations
to carry out development projects in the developing world. Three
operating principals guide our approach: certainty of results, extreme
transparency and no overhead.
Certainty of results. In Masindi, we are working
with the premier water development group in the East Africa, Busoga
Trust. Their approach has been honed over 20 years through work on 1400
wells in Uganda and surrounding countries. Their experience, together
with the favorable geology of Masindi and stable political climate in
Uganda give us confidence that our work will have profound impact on
people’s lives in Masindi.
No Overhead: 100% of Busoga Trust America’s
overhead cost are covered by grants from its Founders. This means that
every dollar donated goes to Africa.
Transparency: Every donation, large or small, is linked to a specific project. Donors are notified which project their gift supports. Each project has a page on this web site that gives details about the village served by the new well, data on water quality and access before and after our intervention and photo and video documentation of our work and the new well. The idea is to provide to donors a window into exactly who thier donation helped and what it accomplished.
