Nurturing the Next Generation in Uganda
H2O4ALL is committed to breaking down barriers to education in our client communities wherever we find them. As we continue to seek effective ways to make positive change in our communities, we’ve begun pairing water projects at schools with food sustainability projects to improve children’s nutrition.
Our first project at Tom and Margaret Education Centre in Mawotto Village, Uganda, began in 2020. The community had no reliable safe water source then, and children made up to three daily trips to collect water for their school and their families. In addition, the community struggled with food insecurity. The school’s staff were doing their best to provide a daily meal for more than three hundred students, many of whom had nowhere else to go.
While helping to install a safe water system at the school, a young volunteer named Nathan met the children at Tom and Margaret and realized that many of them didn’t have enough to eat.
Later that year, we began building a food security project at Tom and Margaret to help feed the school’s children. Now, the school has a farm that includes bananas, cassava, corn, beans, groundnuts, and fruit trees, providing abundant and healthy food to Mawotto’s children.
After the farm’s success in Mawotto, H2O4ALL recognized the importance of food sustainability. After implementing a safe water source at Life Schools in Kyempene Village, Uganda, last year, we returned to Kyempene last August to begin the construction of a small poultry farm that would provide meat and eggs to the school’s students. The school now has 50 chickens, and staff hope that each child at Life Schools will be able to have an egg at least once a week when the first 2024 term starts. We also have plans to add a vegetable garden to the school in the future.
