Every gift in the WaterSchool Gift Catalogue is something our team in Uganda uses every day to transform communities.

From clean, safe water to investments in girls education, it's all in here and ready for you to give.

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$95: Give a family clean water.

This training package includes SODIS (solar disinfection training) training to help a family access clean water, as well as hygiene/sanitation training to build lifelong habits for health.

Give clean water

$114: Champion a girl’s education

This gift includes school fees and a whole year of school supplies for a vulnerable young woman who otherwise would not be able to attend school. A gift of $114 sponsors a month of school, and a gift of $1,370 champions an entire year of school for a young woman.

Give her a future through education

$82: Ignite a community’s economy

Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) are a key economic driver of small communities in Uganda. Families invest money, see returns, and help their peers access valuable capital to start businesses or address urgent community needs. Your gift provides the seed funding and training for a brand new VSLA.

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At WaterSchool, we advance the health and well-being of Uganda’s most vulnerable families and communities.

We start by delivering access to clean, safe water — an essential component of long-term health.

When families are able to access a safe water supply, they are empowered to pursue education, business, community investment and a brighter, more just future for their children.

Here's how we do it

People in rural areas draw their drinking water mainly from surface sources such as ponds, rivers and lakes.

These sources are often watering holes for livestock, downhill from latrines, and catchments for mudslide debris - all dangerous contaminants that can contribute to life-threatening illnesses like diarrhea, cholera, dysentery and hepatitis. 

Over 70% of all diseases treated in Uganda stem directly from a lack of clean water or poor sanitation and hygiene techniques.

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The WaterSchool approach is a proven, effective solution to combat waterborne illnesses and dramatically transform life for communities in rural Uganda.

Over the years, we have carefully tracked the incidence of waterborne diseases among the communities we partner with. When it comes to waterborne illness, whether or not a household has experienced diarrhea in the past month is a key indicator of whether or not our Water, Hygiene and Sanitation (W.A.S.H.) efforts are effective.

Over the past three years, we have seen a 96.6% reduction in diarrhea across the households we partner with.

2021: 12,000 households experienced a 97% decline in the incidence of diarrhea
2022: 13,500 households experienced a 97% decline in the incidence of diarrhea
2023: 16,500 households experienced a 96% decline in the incidence of diarrhea

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