We are not prepared to live in a world where children either have to walk several miles to collect drinking water or suffer illness and time off school because the water they have is unclean.

In the Emmaus Project, we have set ourselves the task of providing water for the children of 22 schools in the Masaka district of South West Uganda to meet their WASH needs; for drinking, cleaning, cooking and the irrigation of their tree nurseries. We are doing this one school at a time and, with the help of family, friends and businesses we aim to break the cycle of poverty in Masaka.

We are asking for your help, one school at a time. Our current project is to put 6 x 20,000 litre water harvesting tanks in the Kiwanyi Primary School as a gesture of solidarity with brothers and sisters in need. We need to raise £22,000 to meet Kiwanyi’s water needs.

The project is being delivered by a partnership between the Masaka and District Land Care Chapter (MADLACC) in Uganda and WaterHarvest, a UK water-harvesting charity based in Winchester who have so far provided 85% of the funding and employ the lead project engineer in Uganda, Mr Dan Kilimani. The Emmaus partnership which links the 33 Clifton Diocese schools, has provided the other 15% of funding. The lead UK school is St Edward’s Roman Catholic SEMH school in Hampshire.

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All funds raised will be donated to WaterHarvest, a charity registered in England & Wales, No. 1127564