Message from Tony Woodruff on WaterSchool Canada's Clean Water Program in Uganda

Friends

I am writing to you as dawn breaks in the town of Mbale in eastern Uganda. It is loud with birds and roosters telling the world to wake up. The sky is red on the horizon and the air smells of woodsmoke as women cook breakfast.

I am spending this week visiting our projects in this area.  We walk through small fields, now a lush green because the rains have finally come.  I travel with some of our team and we go from home to home talking with the villagers about the tremendous transformations they have made to their kitchens, latrines, bath houses, compost pits, animal shelters and so on, having been shown how to make these changes by our team. Yesterday’s village now has 100% of the homes with latrines and will now qualify to be declared an “open defaecation free” village. The people are so proud and the simple homes are beautiful

These people are very poor. There is no electricity or water pipes. But they are clever and funny - we laugh a lot

This is what you have all contributed to at HOTM. You have no idea how you transform lives and protect children from deadly diseases 

The people tell me again and again “weebali muno “ - thank so much, so I say to you all, weebali muno!

Cheers

Tony