Clean Water Kenya Project #51097

Clean water for 917 households Kenya

by Brighter Communities Worldwide

Project Report | Feb 17, 2025
Ripple effect of your support - thank you

By Rose Hennessy | Operations Manager

Berea Spring Protection Water Committee

Thank you so much for your support of this project bringing clean water to communities in Kenya. This project is protecting 4 existing water sources which is impacting the lives of men, women and children in 917 households. This report is to let you know the wider impact your support is having.

Better health - access to clean protected water sources mean a decrease in waterborne diseases. The families across these households have improved overall health and a reduction in medical expenses.

Better learning - This project brings better hygiene to 7 schools in the area with a healthier environemnt for students and staff leading to better school attendance and improved learning for the children.

Better productivity - access to clean water means not only do the children of these households do better at school, parents and adults are also more productive because they are more healthy. This provides more opportunity for income generating and raising living standards.

Better for the environment - planting trees at the spring protection sites, strengthens ecosystem stability, prevents soil erosion and improves water retention.

Better social impact on communities -

Less time spent collecting water is having huges benefits for girls and women as they have more time for education both at school and in the community and also have more scope for leadership roles within the communities.
Working together as a community making the spring protection a reality, is fostering stronger local networks and support and leads to other project for example - stove installations, community education workshops
The learning and experience of managing their own water sources is building long-term resiliene to environmental and economic challenges brought on by climate change.

The ripple effect of your support for this project spreads far and wide across the households impacted by this project and beyond into the wider community. Thank you for the difference your generosity is making.

99 household have access to clean water at Berea

Construction underway at Cheregyot Spring

Emitiot spring with water pipe to kiosk area

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Oct 17, 2024
Community Spring Protection

By Shadrack Kipngeno | Senior Field Officer Health

Kimasian water spring protection committee

Asante Sana - many thanks for supporting this project bringing access to clean water to households in Kenya.

This report is from Shadrack Kipngeno - Senior Field Officer Health, and it is about Kimasian water spring protection scheme.

Spring protection is one among the several needs which has been identified by the communities.

Kimasian water spring is located in Kapsoit ward, Ainamoi sub county, Kericho county. Semi-Arid area and community members especially women and children walk long distance to fetch water and most beneficiaries are local subsistence farmers.

This spring is serving 951 households reaching out to 1,730 people (380Male, 450Female, 400Boys and 500Girls). Kiboibei primary school is one of the beneficiaries having a population of 280 students and teachers.

Before Kimasian water spring was protected, community members used to fetch and animals drank from the same pool hence prone to contamination of water by animals and storm water, which contributed waterborne diseases like typhoid.

Funding of the project involved 50 percent cost sharing aiding the sustainability of the spring. Project process involved site visit by BCW construction supervisor to check the viability of the spring, preparatory meeting with the community to enlighten the community on what resources to contribute and what BCW will contribute afterwards signing of contract. When all these are done and materials assembled they will do construction.

Water management Committee capacity building - this is a day of training which is conducted by Ministry of Health staffs to enlighten the committee on what measures to take to ensure the sustainability of the project. The topics covered in the training include: Project By-laws, Project Management, Roles of water management Committee, Leadership skill, Financial Management and Environmental health and Sanitation.

Thank you for your support.

Kimasian spring-Construction ongoing, backfilling

Kimasian spring - Community collection point.

Kimasian spring-Water trough for Livestock

Kimasian water management committee training

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Jun 17, 2024
Community meet to plan a new spring protection

By Rose Hennessy | Operations Manager

Staff member Shadrack speaks at community meeting

Thank you for supporting this project which is responding to the number one need identified by the communities we work with in Kenya – access to clean water. People walk every day to collect water and more often than not it is dirty water they have to collect because animals also share the same source or the source has dried up and then they have to continue walking further to find another stream, river or spring.

Your support helps us to provide solutions which include gravity water fed schemes, rain water harvesting from roofs of homes and schools and spring protection schemes.

A natural water spring source is where water bubbles to the surface and collects in a shallow pool where people go to gather water in buckets and containers. Animals use the same pool to drink from leading to contamination and damage to the ground around the pool making it difficult for people to walk over muddy ground.

There are several stages to completing a spring protection including drainage and filtering systems around the spring, construction of a cistern to collect water piped from the spring box and a concrete stand with hand pumps where people from the community can gather to pump water into containers to carry to their nearby homes.

The pumps and cistern are protected by a wall and a gate to keep the area closed off to animals to prevent contamination.

The photographs with this report are taken at a preparatory meeting with the Berea Community in Aniamoi Sub-County, Kericho county. They are ready to cost share on a spring protection and they have been eagerly waiting for this opportunity. They met with Brighter Communities Worldwide in February to learn more about how a spring protection can work to provide their families with access to clean water.

They discussed the importance of conserving water sources, good sanitation and hygiene practices and how cost sharing adds to the sustainability of the project. The cost sharing from the community could be materials or labour not necessarily financial and as well as making the project happen it leads to ownership from the start by the community.

We look forward to updating you on progress as the project unfolds. Thank you for your support.

Natural water spring in need of protection

Community members show the water spring

Community leaders address the meeting

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