Project Status



Project Type:  Dug Well and Hand Pump

Program: Wells for Masindi / Jinga Uganda

Impact: 500 Served

Project Phase: 
Community Managed
Implementing Partner Monitoring Data Unavailable
Initial Installation: Jul 2012

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Community Profile

In the midst of work on the project, our partner in the field reports...

Nakabaali, inauspiciously when it comes to digging wells, is a name that refers to the large rock in the centre of the village. This is an impressive boulder in the upmost part of the village, and consists of a football field area of bare domed rock. Nestled in between the rocks is a small trading centre and the local primary school. The village is large with many households spread along the road trailing into out other site at Bubaali. Most people live on the higher land and the lower areas are left for cultivation of the staple foods which include maize, rice, sweet potatoes. There are also many fruit trees such as matooke, jack fruit and passion fruits as well as the ubiquitous sugarcane, which is the regions main cash crop. Most of the village are involved in subsistence farming, but at the moment there is a slight famine as the maize has not yet been harvested and supplies from last harvest are running low. Apart from poor food security there is also no safe water source in the extended village. Therefore the large population all take water from the swamps that run alongside.

[GPS coordinates for this project are approximate.]

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Project Type

Hand-dug wells have been an important source of water throughout human history! Now, we have so many different types of water sources, but hand-dug wells still have their place. Hand dug wells are not as deep as borehole wells, and work best in areas where there is a ready supply of water just under the surface of the ground, such as next to a mature sand dam. Our artisans dig down through the layers of the ground and then line the hole with bricks, stone, or concrete, which prevent contamination and collapse. Then, back up at surface level, we install a well platform and a hand pump so people can draw up the water easily.


Sponsors

In loving memory of Howard and Irene Easton