Our Projects
Our projects are closely aligned to several the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set out by the United Nations in 2015, namely:
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Goal 1 End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
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Goal 6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
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Goal 10 Reduce inequality within and among countries.
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Goal 13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
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Goal 15 Protect, Restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Here are some of the projects in each of the three areas where we work.
1. Clean water and Sanitation
Families and communities frequently have to collect water from swamps and unprotected springs. Women and young children especially spend time on collecting water which is often contaminated and a source of disease. Kisoboka have been able to support rain water harvesting systems at schools in Uganda and Kenya. This means that the students have access to clean water at the school.
For a High School in Masaka, Uganda we provided financial and technical assistance in building rain water harvesting facilities and latrines. Kisoboka has supported projects for 3 rainwater tanks (2 off 50,000 litres and 1 off 30,000 litres), latrines (VIP type) for boys and girls and wash rooms for each.
Working with the Kenya Rainwater Association, we have completed a rainwater harvesting project at a school in Kenya. A rainwater harvesting system and toilets have been built at a primary school in Kenya and have funded another 6 stance latrine at a school in Uganda.
Starting in 2023, Kisoboka is one of four UK based charities (St Edward’s School, Water Harvest UK and International Tree Foundation are the others) working on the Emmaus Project which provides funding to Masaka and District Land Care Chapter (MADLACC) to deliver sustainable solutions across the 23 identified schools in the Masaka District.
This will be achieved by the planting of trees and the provision of sufficient water resources to meet all their sanitation, washing, irrigation and drinking water needs. Find out more...
2. Sustainable farming
Our approach is sustainable farming on a small scale for local communities. One example is a High School in Masaka where a Food Security Project has been started with cultivation of vegetables and maize together with fish tanks and a greenhouse for tomatoes and peppers. All these projects have made maximum use of local labour, parents and senior students with technical inputs from local tradesmen and engineers.
3. Education and mentoring
We are in the process of setting up training for motivated secondary school teachers in the area of Masaka who want to teach business skills to the local community. This is an important area of development so that capable individuals can set up small businesses to earn an income for their families, they just need the training on how to do it.
One of our trustees, a business trainer in adult education, has already successfully run this course in Kenya and will now be teaching in Masaka, passing over all of the materials so that the local teachers can empower others with these skills. We have a long way to go still but we will keep you posted!