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Drop In The Bucket is a grassroots organization dedicated to combating this deadly water crisis. Our mission is to provide a permanent source of uncontaminated water by constructing wells in villages throughout Africa. www.dropinthebucket.org
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Life cannot exist without water. Yet for most of us clean water is something we take for granted.1.1 billion people worldwide live without safe drinking water and everyday over 25,000 of them die from preventable, water-related illnesses.Of the 680 million who live in Sub-Saharan Africa, approximately ONE-HALF do not have access to a disease and parasite-free water source.

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PROJECT ONE: Wairasa, Uganda This rural village in Eastern Uganda has a population of approximately 1200 people. The water they currently consume is drawn from a dangerous and stagnant hole €“ which is a breeding ground for Malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. This water source is also four miles from most homes and is used by domestic animals as well as people.In October 2006, Drop In The Bucket broke on our first project - two wells for the people of Wairasa. We began the process by commissioning a hydro-geological survey. The results of this study determined the location and depth of underground water. Next, we travelled to Wairasa to oversee the digging and installation of the wells. Your donations went directly to this project and thanks to all of your generous donations the people of Wairas now have clean water for the first time. Of course that was just the start, project two followed and now we are looking at sites for wells 3,4 and 5. Please check out our website www.dropinthebucket.org for info about how you can help. Because water is a basic human right, please join us in the fight to help provide clean water.

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Second Annual Fundraiser

Hey Everyone,So do you want the good news or the great news, well the good news is, we had an amazing night last Friday for our Second Annual Fundraiser. The event was at the Highlands Hollywood which...
Posted by Drop In The Bucket on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:54:00 PST

Designers 4 Africa

Calling creative People, Our friends at designers 4 Africa, just asked me to repost this. They are a great group of people with a really awesome but simple idea of how to give back. They basically don...
Posted by Drop In The Bucket on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:27:00 PST

New Good Search Updates

So a few months ago Drop in the Bucket signed up for Good Search, to give everyone the option of helping to pay for a well by searching the internet. Good Search uses Yahoo's search engine, but instea...
Posted by Drop In The Bucket on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:18:00 PST

Yoga For Africa

Skip Jennings--one of Los Angeles' most popular yoga teachers/fitnessinstructors and a nationally known motivational speaker--has teamed upwith Drop In The Bucket to create Yoga for Africa a six week ...
Posted by Drop In The Bucket on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:46:00 PST

Want to donate to Drop in the Bucket without it costing you dime?

What if Drop in the Bucket earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Well, now we can!GoodSearch.com is a new search engine that donates half its revenue, about a penny per search, to the c...
Posted by Drop In The Bucket on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:53:00 PST

New Website

Hi everyone,Please check out the new website at http://dropinthebucket.org it will still be a work in progress for at least another week, but so much has happened since our original site was posted th...
Posted by Drop In The Bucket on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:39:00 PST

Mudodo

So we just completed construction on another well, this one is in a village called Mudodo. The reason that I'm posting a blog about this particular well is that it's our first roundabout well. Our goo...
Posted by Drop In The Bucket on Thu, 31 May 2007 01:48:00 PST

Hi From Rachel

This Is Rachel,Rachel lives in Wairasa, Uganda and wants to thank all of you for your generousity and kindness. Thanks to all of you Rachel and the other kids in Wairasa have a water well by their com...
Posted by Drop In The Bucket on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:04:00 PST

Completed wells&

When we arrived in Wairasa the contractors had completed the drilling of both wells and were preparing to pour the concrete and install the pipes. Since these rural areas have no hotels or convenien...
Posted by Drop In The Bucket on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:04:00 PST

Projections

On day two we met with the Mayuge District Water Office to officially inform them that we were working in the area. This step is simply a courtesy, as we are not legally required to interact with them...
Posted by Drop In The Bucket on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:28:00 PST