Filters For Schools is a SPOUTS of
Water and IDEAS For Uganda partnership project with primary focus on bringing
clean water and clean water education to students without access. Priority is given to schools that currently
have partial or no access to clean drinking water
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| Students of Hope Nursery and Primary School expressing their happiness upon receiving the filters |
Project objectives.
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To enhance the knowledge and understanding of
the relationship between clean water and health by schools and community
stakeholders in Kampala city.
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To
bring clean water and clean water education to students without access.
-To provide voluntary WASH education to students
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To contribute to the promotion of environmental
conservation in Kampala city by November 2015 through promotion of clean
methods of purifying water by substituting boiling water with charcoal,
firewood, kerosene, with ceramic filters.
According to
UN Water, Lack of access to safe drinking water and inadequate sanitation and
hygiene are responsible for the majority of the 1.8 million annual deaths
caused by diarrhea disease. Children under five are particularly affected.
According to the WHO report, 884 million people do not use improved sources of
drinking water. Over one third of those live in sub-Saharan Africa. In Uganda,
40 per cent of people boil water for purification and many more do not treat
water at all. In addition, wood harvest for domestic cooking and boiling
water is one of the major causes of deforestation. The burning of wood not only
damages the environment, but can also negatively impact human health. In
addition, many women and children spend much of their time gathering fuel
instead of putting that time toward more productive purposes.
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| IDEAS For Uganda's volunteer; Bbale Earnest offloading filters |
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The Filters For Schools Project was therefore
initiated to address such challenges that hinder safe water access, especially
by poor school going children in Uganda. It is also evident that; because the
boiling of drinking water is so expensive and practically very difficult to
boil daily so much water - boarding schools do not provide the drinking
water - their students would need.
So far, we have donated filters to many
students and our beneficiaries include the following schools;
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Busawula
Primary School
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Kampala
School For the Handicapped-Mengo
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Doors
Primary school Namuwongo
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Light High
School Kitebi
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Hope Nursery
and Primary school kawempe
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Mboggo
Grammar Primary school
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Rainbow
Community School Nakawuka
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Kasubi Parents
Primary School.
Our aim is to have every Ugandan student have
access to at least one liter of safe drinking water. This will reduce their
chances of contracting such diseases like Typhoid, Cholera, Diarrhea, etc and
hence increase their school days.
Additionally, we believe that by using
ceramic water filters to ease access to safe drinking water, we shall be
reducing on the energy needs of boiling water and in a way, we are tackling
deforestation.
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| Pupils of Mbogo Grammar dancing for the filters!! |
CRITERIA FOR BECOMING A BENEFICIARY
1. Filling the FFS survey form (info on institution; challenges in view
of drinking water; challenges with school fees payment, etc)
2. Review of applications by the FFS
team
a). A protected environment for installation
b) Capability of beneficiary to manage and maintain the facilities
c). Capability and willingness of school
administration parents for a sensitization workshop (ownership, awareness training,
financial contribution where necessary)
d) Small school of about 250 students
3. Sufficient and permanent water supply
a) Rainwater harvesting
b) Pumping water from another source to a rainwater harvesting tank
c) Providing un-purified water with jerrycans
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| Rebecca Liebschutz of SPOUTS of Water demonstrating to teachers how the Filter works |
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| The FFS team teaching pupils of Rainbow Community school about Sanitation and Hygiene |
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| Students of Kasubi Parents Primary School showing off filters |
