Uganda Lodge

Video – why do our Children need Fresh Clean Water?

Thanks must go to Ben and Sarah Digby who are coming out to Uganda for 3 weeks this July. They have recently paid for a  Ntungamo  Water Supply Engineering Company to survey the hills above Ruhanga to source the best route down the hillside to supply clean piped water down to our village and our schools.

Video – Typical Water Source in Ruhanga     

 This survey has given us an initial estimated cost of £5,500 ($8,000USD) to get the water to our immediate neighbours in Migorora, the Rughanga Development Nursery & Primary School and to Uganda Lodge itself. After this initial work  is completed, several hundred more people living nearby could easily benefit from this initial work with additional funding of £4,700 for Cell 2 and £2,500 for Cell 3  being made available.

Video – Completed Water Project in West Ntungamo

BACKGROUND Most of the people living around Ruhanga Village, Uganda are subsistence farmers, having a small plot of land around their house on which to grow a few vegetables and keep a couple of goats and chickens. They have a very basic home, usually consisting of two or three rooms and built with locally made mud bricks and a roof of either thatched banana leaves and grass or rusting iron sheets. They have no power and rely mainly on candles or oil lamps. Much of their day is spent fetching water, a significant walk away to a dilapidated well and collecting wood (jobs often relegated to children before and after school) tending their gardens, preparing and cooking their food, and perhaps looking after a sick or elderly relative. Many families also care for one or two extra orphan children in their midst.

The whole village is in the process of a proactive regeneration project, led by the community and assisted by the UK registered Charity ‘Let Them Help Themselves Out of Poverty’. The community have already made significant progress in developing trade through selling handmade crafts, pottery and matting and have opened a guest house to catch passing eco/wildlife tourist trade, called Uganda Lodge.  To continue their development, the community would seek your assistance in providing partial or full funding for the construction of this water gravity system, enabling them to construct a pipeline to the village from a clean, free flowing, and mountain source.