Kihani village is a rural and remote community in Mukono district Central Uganda. There are approximately 180 households and over 2000 people in this village.
Service delivery in this community is still very poor. Access to clean and safe water stands at less than 10% since there’s hardly any safe water source. People depend on streams which they share with their animals.
The water situation is made worse by the drying up of the current springs and streams due to over gardening in the swamps. There are always many people waiting in turn at the stream and some use it inappropriately and so cause further contamination. For example many wash their dirty clothes so close to the unprotected stream!
Pictured:
Here the children are walking back home from the stream with containers of water. it will take them at least an hour to get back to their home.
Here are some of the children collecting water from the current water water source which is just a surface stream.