Access to clean water close to home cuts out the long journeys women and children were making to often contaminated sources and allows them to pursue work or education if they choose.

Currently, 15% of Kenyans do not have access to clean water so they rely on sources that are possibly contaminated, including ponds, shallow wells and rivers.

These challenges are significantly more prominent in rural areas that are too remote to connect to piped water infrastructure.

Currently, 15% of Kenyans do not have access to clean water so they rely on sources that are possibly contaminated, including ponds, shallow wells and rivers.

These challenges are significantly more prominent in rural areas that are too remote to connect to piped water infrastructure.

"I am 31 years old and married and with 3 children. Two of them are in school. I am a chairperson of this water management committee within this borehole and my work is to report the problems to be solve by the hand pump mechanics.

We are very glad for the repairing our borehole."

- Ayel Lual, Community Member

Clean water is only available for half an hour to this community each day. Community members are traveling to mango orchards to seek out water for their domestic needs.

Water supply to this village is through the Panchayat water line which is insufficient to supply water to the large population of this community.

This community is finding it very difficult to find water to cater to their domestic needs everyday.

Women and children have been going to nearby mango orchards to fetch water for domestic needs but it is not always suitable to drink.

“This community has been without access to clean water for too long due to a broken water pump.

They are thrilled that they now have access to clean water meaning women and children are free from the burden of seeking water for the community”.

“We are fully equipped and mandated to provide clean drinking water to our people and shall presumably receive some money from the community through repair and exchange fees. We have installed the two new pipes and cylinder to this well which were confirmed damaged".

- Nyibol Abiem Akeen, Community Member

“We’re very thankful to you for your help and we hope you can be available at any time this well breaks. We also hope you and your organization will rehabilitate this platform for our livestock like goats, sheep, and cows to drink in it.

Now as I am the one pumping water, I’m very happy and quite sure that these 86 households are happy as well. We’ll also make sure the maintain the well for it’s better performance and accessibility of it’s water”.

- Ajok Kuony, Community Member

‘James Manut Mathiang is the headteacher of the local school, he said “When the well wasn’t working it was a struggle, more than 7 pupils dropped out of school altogether. Now that we have access to a clean water source, they are all attending their classes peacefully”.

“In this area, the community have been walking long distances to collect water due to the disrepair of their clean water pump. Now they are able to spend this time being productive and going to school as opposed to seeking out water that may or may not be contaminated”.

Over the past decade, women of this community have been traveling up the 3km per day to collect water that is often contaminated.

They have been relying on the backwaters of  a lake nearby for domestic and drinking water.

Water supply to this village is through the Panchayat water line which is insufficient to supply water to the large population of this community.

Children have been unable to attend school regularly due to lack of clean drinking water. Women and children have been collected contaminated water from a lake across the highway for domestic use.

Water supply to this village is through the Panchayat water line which is insufficient to supply water to the large population of this community.

Community members rely on nearby borewells to collect water when they are switched on.

When they don’t have borewell water access, the community relies on local contaminated pond water to complete domestic tasks. 

Missira Tenda is a subsistence farming community growing groundnut, millet and rice. This community is remote and most often forgotten.

It has only one hand pump which used to serve the entire community and it has broken down over time. Diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases are very common especially among children.

"Since my childhood I used to observe the amount of strain my mother used to take in bringing the water to our home and we used to assist her and most of the time used to get wasted in fetching the water.

Now we are very happy to see that we have safe water facility at our disposal and we are able to get water easily and also as much as we require."

- Mrs. Jenifer

“Everyday we had to spend lots of time to bring water to our home. Most of the days our children were not in a position to even take a bath.

It was a dream for us that one fine day we would be availing adequate water source. TOMO & Drop4Drop have made our dreams come to reality. It is a miracle for us and our community.”

- Mr. Masthan S/O. Ibrahim

“We are now able to get the required water without any difficulty and the water we are getting is a great blessing to our village.

It was a great dream for us and we had been longing for such a facility in our life. Now our dream has come true.

We are able to use the water for bathing our children and the children are also healthy and the skin disorders which were realised have been controlled.”

- Mrs. Premila W/o. Venkatesan

“Access to clean water in this community has significantly contributed to improving livelihoods and sanitation among the community members who used to face issues related to lack of clean water for many years.

We are lucky that we have got a clean water source nearby our homes. Now, our lives will improve. We thank Drop4Drop and TOMO for this clean water source in our community.”

- Namanya Hussain

“Once in 3 days the water used to be availed from the common tap, sometimes the late comers were not able to avail the water.

Then we have to go walking in search of water to the ponds and lakes. Because of the poor availability of water, we used to lose causal jobs, and the children used to suffer skin diseases and cold and cough.

Now we are very happy and are using the water for all purposes. Thank you very much CY Consultants and TOMO”

“We used to walk to the ponds and bring water on our heads and it was great physical constraint to us and with less water we had to attend to all the needs and thus it was not healthier and we used to take bath only once in 3 days.

But now we are very happy as the water is availed at our nearby street and also we are able to get as much as water required for the family.”

- Mr. G. Chengaiah S/o. Krishnaiah

"This water source is where they depend on for drinking, cooking, laundry, bathing especially for their children before they go to school they can have a bath and be comfortable while in class.

The importance of this water source is extremely tremendous. Thanks to this project we are now happy the water source is up in a good quality standard.”

- Mrs. Isatou Sallah

“We had been suffering a lot without water and the water which we used to get is very less and not adequate and again we used to walk more than 2 kilometres one way and have to bring on our head and hip.

This was a great burden to us and now we are so happy about the new water project. Thanks to TOMO, your generosity is well registered in our Hearts. God Bless members of TOMO. Thank You.”

- Ms. Samandhi D/O. Venkatesh