Kakyindo Village
2022 Fundraising Goal: $2,323.00
Community Connection
We are thrilled to be able to work together on another fundraising collaboration with the Ryan’s Well Foundation. This year’s special project is for: THE KAKYINDO VILLAGE PROTECTED SPRING!
Our fundraising goal is $2,323.00 CAD which will provide the Kakyindo Village Community with a protected spring along with the associated material, labor, WASH training, and monitoring costs.
$1 from every assessment will go directly to our fundraising goal!
Rukungiri Women’s Integrated Development Foundation (RWIDF)
The Ryan’s Well Foundation work with a local partner, referred to as the 'Rukungiri Women's Integrated Development Foundation' (RWIDF). Together they provide communities in Western Uganda with Protected Springs!
Project: Protected Springs
The Kakyindo Village
The Kakyindo Village is one of the communities that will be receiving a Protected Spring this year thanks to the amazing Ryan’s Well Foundation!
Kakyindo village is located within Nyamunuka Sub-County, in Ntungamo District, Western Uganda. This village is home to 10 families, with an initial population estimate of 88 people.
The Kakyindo Protected Spring was officially completed in November 2022 and the community has received their initial WASH training!!!
With help from RWIDF, leaders from the village were selected to form a Water Committee. One of the amazing things about these projects is that they provide the community with the knowledge, tools to take full responsibility or all future management and maintenance of the spring. The RWIDF plays a huge role in the educational portion, and works closely with the Water Committee members from Kakyindo to learn their roles and responsibilities. The RWIDF team will also hold a training day for the District-level Hygiene Promotion staff, which will help the village Water Committees manage any future repairs, secure savings, promote good WASH habits in the communities, etc. In addition, community members living in Kakyindo village will also participate in WASH training. Education is the key to caring for the spring and themselves!
To wrap-up the 2022-23 project in Kakyindo Village, a ‘Learning and Sharing’ session will be held at the Sub-County offices, where participants from this year’s project can share experiences and ideas with the RWIDF and with each other. The RWIDF will conduct routine monitoring and evaluation activities for the next two months of all the 30 sites that benefited in 2022-23 (including Kakyindo).
Ahebwa Moreen thanked everyone at Kemptville Physiotherapy Centre for helping to build her community a protected water source.
Webare Mononga (Thank you very much)!!
Photo: Ahebwa Moreen, 12 year old Kakyindo Village resident, collecting water from the newly constructed Kakyindo Spring. She thanked The RWIDF for choosing their village to benefit from this project saying “ our village is distant from the town so we thought we would never get access to clean water.”
The Impact
The burden of collecting water disproportionality falls on women and children, especially girls, who typically spend 1-2 hours per day collecting contaminated water from surface ponds and springs. For many schools in Western Uganda, children take alternate morning classes off to collect water for the school, thus missing 25% of their education annually.
As a result, many students fall behind in their studies, and are not provided with equal learning opportunities. Apart from the time spent fetching water in Uganda, the water collected often carries water-borne diseases, including cholera, dysentery, and diarrhoea (the leading cause of death in children under five years old in Sub-Saharan Africa).
The Ryan’s Well Foundation have worked in this region since 2002 with a local partner, referred to as the 'Rukungiri Women's Integrated Development Foundation' (RWIDF). Unlike some of their other local partners, the RWIDF team are unable to drill wells for communities in this area because of the very mountainous terrain (the drilling equipment cannot make it to the drill sites).
Photo: Evelyn, age 3, youngest in a family of six children from Nyakahanga Water Source 2021