Give Hope and Health with WaterSchool
Browse the WaterSchool gift catalogue and select gifts for your loved ones.
Every dollar you give will be used to bring clean water, health and hope to families across Uganda.
Together with our team, we'll make sure your loved one receives an ecard or mailed card letting them know of your thoughtful and compassionate gift in their honour.
Your gift will be designated to WaterSchool Canada's Community Transformation Projects.
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.
This training package includes all of the building blocks for a healthy future for an entire community (approximately 700 people). We start with SODIS (solar disinfection training) training to help an entire community access clean water. We also dig into hygiene/sanitation training to build lifelong habits for health. To ensure the long term financial viability of their water, hygiene and sanitation initiatives, we help establish a Village Savings and Loan Program.
Last year, prior to our partnership, only 2% of the households we started working with were treating their water. By the end of the year, 94% of households were treating their water, leading to the reduction of diarrhea cases from 45% to 1% over the year. Clean water truly changes everything!
Your gift will be designated to WaterSchool Canada's Clean Water Access Projects.
Rainwater collection tank for a Household
This 6,000 litre tank brings clean, safe water to the doorstep of five families. These large cement tanks harness the power of Uganda's rainy season. This full tank costs $1,232.
Rainwater collection tank for a Health Center
This 10,000 litre cement tank makes essential clean, safe water easily accessible for patients and staff at health centres. The full tank costs $1,643.
A Sawyer Filtration System for one classroom
Recently we've implemented Sawyer filter systems instead of SODIS in schools, as the bottles for SODIS would go missing and there wouldn't be access to clean water on rainy days. Sawyer filter systems use a hollow fibre membrane to filter water. The membrane contains tiny pores that allow water to pass through, while trapping bacteria, protozoa, and other contaminants. The filter also contains activated carbon, which can remove chemicals, odors, and other impurities from the water. Each system in a classroom produces an average of 400 litres of safe water per day.
These boreholes require significant investment and yield life-changing results, often bringing thousands of litres of fresh water every day to multiple communities, schools and health centres.
Your gift will be designated to WaterSchool Canada's clean water access projects.
A communal tap at the village tap stand
Tap stands are located at a central point in each community that the borehole system serves. It's a stand of four taps where any community member can access clean, safe water. Your gift today champions one tap at a communal tap stand.
Pipeline Extension
When communities are close together, we like to extend the reach of the borehole system as far as possible to serve as many people as possible. To extend the pipeline 5 KM is $4,109.
Elevated Holding Tank
This 40,000 litre holding tank sits 12 meters off the ground. Water is pumped up into it for storage, and then the elevation pressurizes the system as the water is delivered to various tap stands across the region. The whole elevated holding tank requires an investment of $10,137.
Tower for Holding Tank
The tank sits atop a 12 meter tower that provides the pressure needed across the system to deliver fresh, clean water across the region. The tower costs $12,877 to construct.
Pump and electrical mechanical installations
The pump is solar-powered and draws water from deep aquifers providing access to clean water in drought-prone regions.
The total investment for this project is $23,013.
An entire solar-powered deep borehole and pump system
This gift covers the entire project cost to bring water to multiple villages, schools and health centres across a region, providing people with access to clean, safe water even during drought conditions. The total investment to construct this project is $136,986.
When girls drop out of school early, often they become married too young and have their own children before they are ready. By providing schools with inexpensive infrastructure for safe sanitation and offering training for healthy hygiene practices, we can support girls and women in pursuing their education.
Your gift will be designated to WaterSchool Canada's programs supporting women and girls.
Mentorship and Life Skills Training for a Young Woman.
At "Empowerment and Mentoring Camp," young women are connected with one another, mentored and taught valuable life skills to help them secure a safe, bright future for themselves and their family. This gift provides the opportunity for one girl to attend camp.
Equipment for a Menstrual Hygiene Room at a School.
When you provide a school with the beds, spare uniforms, painkillers and showers for their Menstrual Hygiene Room, you're ensuring young women can stay in school all the way through graduation. For too many, a lack of privacy and tools to manage their periods effectively causes them to drop out of school at a young age. $411 equips the entire Menstrual Hygiene Room.
Menstrual Hygiene Room
When you build a menstrual hygiene room at a school, you're providing young women with a safe, private place to manage their periods at school. This is a key way to help girls continue pursuing their education all the way through high school. This gift includes beds, spare uniforms, private latrines, painkillers, a shower and more. This gift covers one tenth of the cost of building this important room in a school.
Champion a Month of Education for a Young Woman.
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 $1,370 champions an entire year of school for a young woman.
Your gift will be designated to WaterSchool Canada's Community Transformation Projects.
Seed-Funding for a New Local Village Savings and Loan Association.
Savings and Loan Associations 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.
With our Board Members covering our minimal administrative costs, 100% of every dollar you give goes straight to our programs in Uganda. Between that and our years of expertise in the field, you can rest assured that when you give to WaterSchool, your donations are having maximum impact.
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