New Ways is celebrating World Water Day while trying to make water more accessible to the communities we support. Access to clean drinking water is life-critical. We support the drilling of bore holes and the creation of earth-pan dams. These projects are even more urgent as Kenya and the Greater Horn of Africa continue to suffer from another drought. Our water projects save lives, sustain cattle - essential to the people's way of life, enable small agricultural projects to flourish, improve health and hygiene, and allow more girls to go to school rather than searching for water. Every £1 donated provides water for someone in need for 100 days in Turkana and over 1000 days in Malawi.

This project seeks to install bore holes in Turkana and Malawi. As well as drilling the bore holes, where appropriate we will also install solar pumps which are the most sustainable and technologically advanced way to make the bore holes effective and ensure a supply of clean drinking water. In the case of a solar installation, the drilling of the bore hole is just over 50% of cost, and the rest is the solar pump and tanks.

Once each bore hole is set up, we will be able to use it to supply various needs of the community, which includes drinking water for a village (usually 2500 people) as well as the nursery school and any agricultural development. This is important because the semi-nomadic communities would otherwise need to set up their homes close to open water sources which can become contaminated. Access to water leads to many other benefits to the community including girls going to school because they no longer have to go out every day in search of water for their families.