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A message from Fiona Jeffery OBE, Founder and Chair, Just a Drop
Safeguarding

This policy will address the following areas of safeguarding: child safeguarding, adult safeguarding, and protection from sexual exploitation and abuse. These key areas of safeguarding may have different policies and procedures associated with them (see Associated Policies). Just a Drop commits to addressing safeguarding throughout its work, through the three pillars of prevention, reporting and response.
Steps to Water

785 million people globally don't have access to safe water. In developing countries, it takes an average of 6 km to reach water, which is 8,000 steps... Bring clean water a step closer this World Water Day, Sunday 22 March! Take on our Steps to Water challenge, hold your own fundraising event, give a regular or one-off donation and share on social media and help bring water a step closer - transforming lives. #stepstowater
(Tap) Water for All

(Tap) Water for All inspires people to turn the everyday act of drinking tap water into a positive social action, transforming lives all around the world.

A message from Fiona Jeffery OBE, Founder and Chair, Just a Drop
World Toilet Day 2019

Celebrated every year on the 19th November, World Toilet Day hopes to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis.
Fiona's Just a Drop Journey

Read more about Fiona Jeffery OBE's journey with Just a Drop from founding in 1998, to reaching over 1.5 million people to date with access to safe water and sanitation
Autumn Highlights

We’ve been busy so far this autumn bringing safe water, sanitation and hygiene to communities around the world, all thanks to your support. Here are our autumn highlights!
The women making a difference in Nicaragua

The roles played by women in society are increasingly visible. Pay parity, the ‘Me Too’ movement and recent high-profile sporting events including the Women's World Cup, and Netball World Cup, are all helping to champion women’s causes and raise awareness of key issues faced by women in society. In some parts of the world, where basic needs are often still being met, women are making themselves heard in different ways.
Solving India's Sanitation Conundrum

India is aiming to become an open defecation free country by October 2019. Although the Indian Government is building toilets on a massive scale, the numbers don’t match the reality – toilets simply remain unused. Properly designed and constructed toilets with washrooms for women, together with the essential component of education around sanitation and hygiene practices, are key to making India an open defecation free country, says Jim Baldwin, Just a Drop’s Project Engineer for India
Spring Highlights

We're pleased to share the news that we have completed our 300th project in Montegrande, Nicaragua! Thanks to your generous support, this spring we've been busy working with communities from Cambodia to Zambia to provide access to safe water and sanitation. Here are our spring highlights!
For the Love of Nature

Just a Drop's annual talk for 2019 'For the Love of Nature' saw the filmmakers behind epic Netflix series Our Planet and acclaimed BBC series Life, Planet Earth and The Hunt share the stories that have inspired them across their thirty years of wildlife filmmaking, from the jungles of Borneo to China's panda reserves and the Galapagos Islands...
Delivering Impact and Making a Difference in Uganda

Just a Drop Founder Fiona Jeffery OBE reflects on her recent trip to Uganda to assess Just a Drop's impact and discover how our safe water and sanitation projects with communities, schools, and most recently with health centres, are creating changes which are transforming lives.
Timothy's Story

Timothy, 39, is from Makueni County, Kenya. Just a Drop worked with Timothy's community to provide access to safe water through the construction of a sand dam. Sand dams raise the water table of the surrounding area, regenerating the land and enabling vegetation to grow. We caught up with Timothy to hear how the sand dam has supported the development of his successful farming and fruit growing business.

Meet the Team

Get to know who we are
What We Do

We work at a grassroots level to support communities around the world with access to sustainable safe water solution, sanitation facilities and knowledge of safe hygiene practices: such as through the construction of wells, pipelines, sand dams, rainwater harvesting systems and latrines, and hygiene and sanitation programmes.
Projects

Map showing our clean water, sanitation and hygiene projects across the world.
Why Water?

With clean water, communities can begin to lift themselves out of poverty and build brighter futures. Drinking dirty water can make people sick. That’s just part of the picture. A lack of clean water and sanitation holds back development and makes it harder for communities to escape the poverty trap.
Our Approach

We believe everyone, everywhere, should have access to clean water as a basic right. We want to see a world where everyone has clean water and adequate sanitation, and the increased health and prosperity this brings. Our approach is to support marginalised people across the world through community-led development, rather than aid; and to focus on sustainability and quality, ensuring a project's transformative impact is felt for decades to come.
Kenya
Solutions
Baltimore Aircoil Company

Just a Drop partnered with Baltimore Aircoil Company on World Water Day, 22 March 2018, to bring safe water and sanitation to communities worldwide. Throughout 2019, Baltimore Aircoil Company will support the 23,000 people who use Zzinga Health Centre in Uganda with safe water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. In 2018, BAC’s employees engaged in raising funds to support Just a Drop to bring much needed safe water to 1,324 people across India, Kenya and Nicaragua.
Uganda
India