Busoga Trust
United Kingdom
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The Busoga Trust is a long established charity that installs clean water sources throughout Uganda. Allied to this are Home Improvement Campaigns and a comprehensive programme to educate people in better hygiene. Most rural people have to drink polluted water. Disease flourishes in conditions like these, resulting in high infant mortality and poor quality of life. The programmes we run can reduce the incidence of disease dramatically. We aim to eradicate the problems caused by polluted water by installing hand-dug wells, boreholes and water catchments which provide clean water to the people. Construction is overseen by trained engineers but for the most part the work is done by the local community which generates a strong sense of ownership. A further development is represented by Home Improvement Campaigns. In communities where they have been implemented, spectacular reductions in the incidence of diseases such as malaria have resulted.
