Greetings from Uganda! This is Judith. She is the Head Teacher of North Road P. School, a mixed School in the urban area of Mbale Municipality with 3,000 students. North Road P. School has requested a loan to cover the cost of installing and maintaining UV water and Tulip filtration systems to provide clean drinking water for its students. The school does not currently have access to consistent clean drinking water and therefore has to spend a considerable portion of their budget on firewood, which is used to boil water for the children. Installing two water filtration systems will therefore save the school money in the long-term as the cost of firewood will be reduced.
The loan will enable the school to purchase UV and Tulip Filtration water treatment systems with a 3,000 litre tank and five Sets of 20 litre buckets, which will be big enough to store clean drinking water for the students every day.
North Road P. School will repay their loan from their school fees, which they collect each term. Judith ultimately hopes that having access to safe drinking water will improve her student’s concentration and attendance by reducing the number of children that fall sick from water-borne diseases as well as increase the number of students coming to the school.