Namagongoro is a semi urban slum community in Wakiso district, on the outskirts of Kampala city, Uganda. It’s a residential area for very many low income earners who are informally employed in the city.

With a population of more than 2,000 people, the majority don’t access water from the National Water pipeline, but from unsafe sources they have created in nearby swamps. Unfortunately, much of the sewage from nearby homes that use flushing toilets, soaks into this swamp.  The swamps are also used as dumping sites for all kinds of waste from the nearby rich homes!  This means that these people collecting water from surface ponds in these swamps, are collecting extremely unsafe water. No wonder, there is always an outbreak of diseases like cholera, typhoid, diarrhea and many others.

Imagine If, is a program that seeks to empower women by offering them soft loans to start new businesses or even boost existing businesses. Rosemary, 65 yrs old, approached the program coordinators with her proposal to put up a water vending point to help her community access clean water but also be able to earn an income for her family.  Unfortunately this program could not fund her for this project since they only extend very small loans.  However, she was advised to contact us at Suubi.  We have assessed the project and found it very worthy.

The project proposal is to drill and construct an electric powered water well in the community. Rosemary will sell the water and pool funds together to pay back the loan.