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New prospects thanks to clean water

The project aimed to provide local families with access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and to provide them with training on hygiene standards and the sustainable use of water.

Africa
Kenya
Laikipia
Funding period: 2018-2020

In Laikipia County in Kenya, more than half of the households have no or only inadequate access to clean water and sanitation.

The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) project in Laikipia County, a semi-arid region north of Nairobi, Kenya, was part of a long-term program that supported the most vulnerable members of society with challenges of adequate housing, hygiene and sanitation, as well as knowledge of land and inheritance rights. The main goals of the project were to improve access to the water supply with clean drinking water for about 600 community members of Kariunga Village. For this reason, the Wilo-Foundation supported the water project of Habitat for Humanity Germany in cooperation with Habitat for Humanity Kenya in Laikipia County.

The solar-powered well built by the project supplies the approximately 1,800 residents in the Kariunga community. Photo: Habitat for Humanity Deutschland e.V., Cologne
Well technicians from the village explain how the well works to Evi Hoch (Wilo-Foundation, left) and Belete Matebe (Wilo East Africa, right) during their visit to the project in July 2024. Photo: Habitat for Humanity Deutschland e.V., Cologne

The project activities significantly improved the daily lives of the local population as women and their children no longer have to walk many miles to reach the nearest water point and fetch water for their families. Moreover, selected community members have received technical training. In the future, they will be part of “water committees” who will be responsible for installing and maintaining the water pumps of the new water and sanitation systems.

Photo Header: Habitat for Humanity

Our funding partner

Habitat for Humanity Deutschland e.V., Cologne, is part of the international Habitat for Humanity network. The international aid organization Habitat for Humanity was founded in the USA in 1976 and has been a registered non-profit association based in Cologne in Germany since 1998 and part of a global network that advocates for the human right to a safe roof over one's head through home-related aid projects in more than 70 countries worldwide. Through house construction, retrofitting and renovation work, water, sanitation and hygiene measures, disaster relief and preparedness, as well as a wide range of training courses on topics such as construction, health and housing, 59 million have already been able to improve their housing situation since it was founded.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) forms the global framework for action for socially, economically and ecologically sustainable development. Our funding commitment also supports these sustainability goals. With this project, we are making a contribution to achieving the following SDGs:

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