Uganda

Hope Springs Water is partnering with Living Water International, which operates out of Houston, Texas, to provide clean water to Bunyagira, Uganda. This is a community of about 600 people which boasts an elementary school  serving approximately 200 local students in first through third grades.  Current water sources for the students and citizens of  Buyagira include two options.  The first option is to walk two miles to the next village, which has a well, fill a five gallon jug with well water, and then  walk back two miles to the village carrying the water.  The second option is to visit a local catchment pond, that consists of a hole dug in the ground that catches run-off rain water.  The water hole is an open pit that is shared by people and animals alike, and contains whatever surface contaminants the rain water washes into the pond.  Subsequently, gastrointestinal illnesses are commonplace in the village.  The ponds also serve as a perfect breeding pond for the malaria-carrying mosquito, which is also quite common in Bunyagira.

Hope Springs Water is currently raising funds to finance the well in Bunyagira.  You can help by drinking Hope Springs Water (all profits to Hope Springs, Inc. from the sale of the water are channeled to Hope Springs Water for use in funding our projects) or by making a tax deductible contribution to Hope Springs Water, or by holding a fund raiser of your own and donating the proceeds to Hope Springs Water.  The people of Bunyagira have expressed excitement about partnering with Hope Springs Water to bring pure water to their village through a joint project between Hope Springs Water and the people of Bunyagira.  When we work together, we are always better, and we find that we CAN, when we DO work together, truly make a difference.