Kenya
More than half of the people in Kenya don't have safe drinking water or basic sanitation. Diarrhoea is a waterborne disease: every year it kills more than one million children worldwide through dehydration and malnutrition.
Will you help us provide clean water, hygiene education and sanitation for school kids in Kenya?
- Our Project
- Support our 2009/2010 Appeal
- Why SUFA works in Kenya
- Case studies
Our Project
Our Water for Schools Project benefits the whole community by improving the health and wellbeing of schoolchildren and their teachers. We are working with our local partner KWAHO to develop this vital project.
At each community school, we install a borehole to provide safe, clean water for the children to drink. We also improve sanitation facilities and provide hygiene education to help the children avoid infection from water-borne parasitic diseases.
Support our 2009/2010 Appeal
During 2009/2010, we hope to provide safe, clean drinking water, sanitation facilities and hygiene education for approximately 4,200 schoolchildren in 10 schools in Kenya. This vital work will cost just £79 per schoolchild. So you can see just how much difference your donation would make.
Please, make a donation to SUFA today
Why SUFA works in Kenya
Only 49% of people in rural areas have safe drinking water. Many people have to use unprotected, and potentially unsafe, water sources.
- Most Kenyans live in rural areas (24 million), while 9 million live in urban areas. More than 4 million live in informal settlements.
- Schools and communities have very poor sanitation facilities and inadequate water that is often contaminated. In these circumstances, schools become unsafe places where diseases are transmitted easily.
- Diarrhoea, a waterborne disease kills about 2.2 million people each year, most of whom are children under five.
- Poor sanitation in school buildings impairs children's growth and development, limits school attendance and negatively affects students' ability to concentrate and learn.
- The Government's recent introduction of free primary education for all is a positive measure but has put further pressure on the already over-stretched education system (more than 1.3 million children were enrolled to primary school in 2003). Widespread poverty and child labour still prevent about 1.7 million children from attending school. Nearly 70% of children do not attend secondary school.
Source of statistics: UNICEF, Global Water and Sanitation; trends and status, 2006
Case studies: Water For Schools Project
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