Kotido Diocese, Uganda, Asks SPICMA To Finance Twenty Five New Boreholes

In 2008, SPICMA launched an appeal to build 30 wells in Kotido Catholic Diocese. The project was so successful that we have been encouraged to build a further twenty wells is in the north east of Uganda, bordering Sudan and Kenya. The people who inhabit this isolated area of the region are called the Karimojong and they have a reputation of being warlike, and in our terms, uncivilized. The men and boys spend their time herding their cattle whilst roaming in  search of grazing land and water. The women and girls stay at home, raise the children, cultivate sorghum, build and maintain the homestead and collect water. The environment is harsh, semi desert. There is some rain every year, but nothing like in Europe. On the occasions it does rain, it tends to be torrential.

Recently, there was a cholera epidemic in Kotido District for reasons that should not happen in 2010. Over five hundred people were infected and many died. The main reason for the outbreak was the lack of safe water. During a period of torrential rain, excrement was washed from open toilets outside the village into the pond where people traditionally drew water, as there were no other sources nearby. Most villagers in this region have to walk at least one mile, and often much further, to reach a borehole because numbers of functioning boreholes are few. Imagine not just the walk in hot sun to the borehole but carrying that water back - not just on womenfolk but on old women and young girls. And that is a daily task. Understandably, if there is a pond nearby, albeit polluted, the women and girls will collect water from the pond and not walk to a borehole that is far away far away. Unfortuneately, there is no awareness of the danger posed through drinking polluted water.

SPICMA has already funded a total of thirty boreholes in the Diocese in 2008/9 but in an area about half the size say of Wales with 650,000 souls many more boreholes are needed and with your continued assistance that is what SPICMA, with your help, will try to achieve.

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