Bring Safe Water to Katungu Hills? Yes, a safe drinking water project by the Mzungu Volunteers family, with over 500+ households in the Katungu village to benefit. Explore this new exciting project coming from the ideas of the villagers themselves to reality with the help of the volunteers and Mzungu!
Katungu is an amazing village full of beautiful Ugandans who will welcome you as family, living about 800mtrs high in the hills overlooking Kabale and Lake Bunyonyi. Daily life here is especially difficult though as there is no fresh water source nearby, hospital and school. As in life with the families, mothers go for farming in the mornings, fathers go for cattle rearing and the children are left to fetch the water, to get water every child must travel a great distance down and up the steep terrain to bring water to their household.
Developing the Plan
Mzungu has in the past few months been setting a development plan which would help improve the lives of the people living in this village. Our plans begun with a safe water project, We've made surveys whether there to bring a borehole into the village for which would cost us a fortune, So we met with the villagers themselves who suggested we use the river down the hills to bring water to the village.
Our next plan was how this could possibly work, our project coordinator Mathew had discussions with the people and they came up with an idea that if we could construct a 5000ML water tank on the village along with a Water pump on the river that could pump water directly into the tank, could supply upto 6-7days to the whole village.
In fact, over 300 families live on this village, fora family of five members use 2-Jerrycans (20 ltrs each) of water per day. This water project will be made sustainable by training a person in the village to control and operate the pump for continued supply of water in the village.
Mzungu will provide continued support, after ensuring smooth supply, we will hand over the project to the village. Our other projects include providing education for all and creating sustainable livelihood opportunities for rural villages across Uganda.
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Volunteer Opportunity
Finally a volunteer project has been designed this is the PHASE-1 , this September (02nd - 27th) we are leaving for Kabale, to contruct a 5000ML water tank, two volunteers joined (Paul and Leonard from England) will be going with us, 15 men from the village are waiting already and still there's space for you to join us.
How to Apply;
To apply go on the link provided below, fill in your details and under “ Projects you would like to be involved in” tick Others and fill in the project name/title in the box following.
Under the package options you can either choose the 4-weeks combo (for the Pur-Water) project and you can either choose a volunteering only combo or an adventure combo. It’s your Choice! We will take to you the heights that you choose, remember this is Mzungu Volunteers!
APPLY NOW and or E-mail us info@mzunguvolunteers.org for questions and or visit www.mzunguvolunteers.org to read more information from our info-pack available on the website.
Thank you for supporting Mzungu Volunteers
from Kennedy and the TEAM!
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