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.

We work with communities and local partners to implement water, sanitation and hygiene ('WASH') solutions that best suit a community's specific needs, and which take into account local water availability, geography, infrastructure, economic conditions and culture.

Community

Our approach is rooted in community-led development, rather than aid, as local ownership is vital to the sustainability of our projects. We work together with local partners and communities from initial proposal through to a project's completion. Each project establishes community-based structures for the maintenance and management of a solution. This approach maintains the dignity of the local community, and ensures their investment, increasing a project's longevity and securing its success.

Sustainability

Our projects and solutions are sustainable and designed and developed to last, for maximum benefit to the communities they serve. Our approach ensures community-ownership, which is key to a project's sustainability. We believe in transforming lives for the long-term, and we aim to monitor our projects for a minimum of 7 years after completion.

Quality

Our approach focuses on the quality of our projects and solutions, to ensure their transformative impact lasts for the long-term. Many of our country project officers have over 40 years engineering experience in an international context, and our UK team has significant relevant professional experience.

Impact

We ensure that all of our projects make a lasting, positive impact to the lives of the poorest communities around the world, transforming lives. We aim to monitor our projects for a minimum of 7 years after completion to ensure this. We can clearly demonstrate our impact, and report back to each project's funding partner to demonstrate the difference their support has made.

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Baltimore Aircoil Company Just a Drop Uganda Appeal
Steps to Water Campaign

844 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, Friday 22 March! Take on our Steps to Water challenge, hold your own fundraising event or take part in our virtual walk for water to bring safe water to communities - transforming lives. #stepstowater
Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)

PATA UK and Ireland is a membership and events association working to support growth in the Asia Pacific travel industry. PATA UK and Ireland were delighted to support Just a Drop's project in Kouk Srok village in Cambodia, providing safe water and hygiene education to 1600 people.

For the Love of Nature

This year's Just a Drop talk at the Royal Geographical Society, 'For the Love of Nature', will take place on 25 April. Join Huw Cordey and Patrick Morris - the award-winning filmmakers behind epic Netflix series Our Planet and acclaimed BBC series Life, Planet Earth and The Hunt - for an evening of the stories that have inspired them across thirty years of wildlife filmmaking.
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 Wambua, 39, is from Kilanga village in 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.
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.

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