This new well will serve over 1,200 students at the Kakamega Secondary School.
Our team has begun the initial phases of construction.
Project Type: Borehole Well and Hand Pump
Program: Wells for Schools - Kenya
Impact: 500 Served
Project Phase:
Under Community Care
Initial Installation: Mar 2010
This new well will serve over 1,200 students at the Kakamega Secondary School.
Our team has begun the initial phases of construction.
Girls and women walk long distances for water when safe water is very often right under their feet! Underground rivers, called aquifers, often contain a constant supply of safe water – but you have to get to it. No matter what machine or piece of equipment is used, all drilling is aiming for a borehole that reaches into an aquifer. If the aquifer has water - and after the well is developed - we are able to pull water to the surface utilizing a hand-pump. If all goes as planned, the community is left with a safe, closed water source providing around 5 gallons of water a minute through a hand-pump.