Water impact report - Winter 2025
An update on MCC water projects
A healthy future for every student
In Ethiopia, you are strengthening schools by providing access to clean water
In Beza, Ethiopia, students and staff at local schools were facing a severe shortage of clean, safe water. The municipal water supply is unpredictable and often contaminated with high levels of fluoride. Additionally, the school’s shallow wells had fallen into disrepair. Too often, the staff and students did not have enough water to meet basic needs such as drinking, cooking, handwashing and cleaning. With your generous support, local MCC partner, Beza Community Development Association (BCDA), has made big changes this past year, particularly at Abossa Primary School.
Today, the school’s shallow well and two water distribution points have been repaired, ensuring the school’s 2,742 students have access to enough clean, safe water for drinking and handwashing.
You’ve also championed the construction of two ventilated pit latrines at the school — reducing the spread of disease and providing a safe, private place for children to relieve themselves.
Dignity and safety for girls at school
In western Uganda, you are championing education equality
In the mountains of western Uganda, students —particularly girls — at nine remote schools faced significant barriers to health and long term success. Girls have to make long, daily walks to fetch water. They received little support for menstrual hygiene and had to use dilapidated non-gender segregated latrines. These realities all threatened girls’ ability to stay in school.
“On behalf of the school parents’ and teachers’ body and my own behalf, with unreserved joy and gratitude allow me expressly to thank South Rwenzori Diocese and MCC for constructing a rain harvesting tank at our school Muzahura Primary.”
Baluku Moses Birungi
Head Teacher, Muzahura Primary School
However, you have championed the education of young women in these rural communities with your kind gifts. Here’s how you have helped MCC partner, Young and Powerful Initiative - South Rwenzori Diocese, make a difference in this community:
- Four schools are now equipped with rainwater
harvesting tanks. With 20,000 litres of clean, safe
water now available at each school, girls are no longer
missing class to brave dangerous trails fetching water
for their peers every day.
- Five ventilated pit latrines have been constructed.
These latrines provide girls with private, safe spaces to
manage their personal health.
- 57 reusable menstrual pad kits were distributed
through schools to young women and 387 students
and teachers were trained on how to use them. These
kits empower girls to make their own reusable pads
with materials easily found at home.
- 24 handwashing facilities have been supplied to nine
different schools.
- Nine schools have newly formed health clubs. At
these clubs, students help their peers understand and
adopt strong sanitation and hygiene practices and
destigmatize menstruation.
With access to reusable pads, safe latrines and a supportive school culture, the rate of girls missing school because of their period has dropped from 69% at the beginning of this project to just 9%.
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Stories about water
Safe, clean water is a basic human need. Yet a quarter of the world’s population can’t access it.
MCC is working with local partners across the globe to ensure people have ongoing access to safe, clean water right in their own communities.
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