After successfully collaborating with the Butakoola Village Association for Development (BUVAD) on building bottle-brick water tanks in 2020, The Giving Exchange was pleased to fund an additional (10) tanks in 2021. Much of Eastern Africa is enduring severe drought, and almost every one of our beneficiaries in both Kenya and Uganda is suffering the consequences. Access to clean water and good hygiene, particularly during a pandemic, is essential so that students may safely continue their education.

The Giving Exchange is proud to have funded a total of (20) bottle-brick water tanks for schools around Uganda. Bottle-bricks are plastic bottles stuffed full of trash and plastic waste until they are compact and sturdy as bricks - they are a simple and accessible technology that has been used to build houses, school buildings, and now, water tanks! Each waste-plastic bottle-brick rainwater harvesting tank holds 10,000 liters of rainwater at a primary school and serves more than 600 pupils at each school. As a durable and mendable project, each is projected to last between 50 to 100 years.

Thank you for helping us make this happen.