Empowering communities: The key to unlocking Africa’s water crisis
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Water is available in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet most people cannot access it. The solution lies in empowering local communities to lead, design, and manage their own water supply systems.
- Published in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Hammanskraal: The South African town where water ‘smells like death’
Thursday, 13 February 2025
Despite existing infrastructure, many residents of Hammanskraal have gone more than ten years without reliable access to clean water. The cholera outbreak in 2023, which left more than 30 people dead, underscored the urgent need for a lasting solution.
- Published in South Africa, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
A life inspired by Africa
Thursday, 03 October 2024
“Potatoes! Potatoes!” came the cry up the stairwell of the six-story apartment block in Maputo. It was the early 1980s and Mozambique was in the midst of civil war – and a famine.
From garden to plate
Friday, 06 October 2023
With tools and watering cans in hand, Dickson and Sumaira join their friends to show off their school’s vegetable garden.
Water eases Awuru’s pain and serves a whole community in Uganda
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
The 68-year-old used to have to walk 15kms from home to get water from the river and battled to carry much back with her, so had to do the long walk every day.
- Published in Uganda, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Mozambique: Mended boreholes restore hope in Montepuez
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
In Cabo Delgado, where violent insurgency has displaced many from their homes, ForAfrika is restoring hope and water with a simple maintenance project. ForAfrika successfully carried out the rehabilitation of boreholes and pumps in various rural villages in Montepuez, Cabo Delgado, recently. The municipal pumps had stopped working due to lack of maintenance and a
- Published in Mozambique, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
