Across northern Kenya, prolonged drought has dried up the seasonal water sources nearly half a million people relied on. The communities most affected — predominantly pastoralist and rural — are walking up to nine hours a day to find water of any quality, much of it unsafe.
This appeal funds a partnership with a local Kenyan water-engineering NGO that has been operating in the region since 2008. Together we will install eight new boreholes with hand pumps and solar-powered storage, train a community-led maintenance committee at each site, and run a 12-month follow-up programme.
£20 provides three months of clean water for a family of four. £500 trains a maintenance technician for a year. £12,000 funds an entire borehole and storage system end to end.
This is not aid airdropped from outside. The teams running this work live in the communities they serve.