Just a Drop Recent Highlights June 2025

Overview

As we head into the summer, we wanted to show our supporters what the first half of 2025 has looked like for Just a Drop…

Well, we’ve had completed projects, newly started projects, award wins, and plenty more, all of which you’ll find more information about below.

Kenya

We have now completed four sand dams in Kenya, all of which were sponsored by the Smiths Group Foundation in a programme which will directly benefit 3,467 people.

The four communities are all located in Kenya’s Kitui county and all will now have enough safe water for drinking, washing, crop planting and so much more.

A massive thank you and congratulations to the Smith’s Group Foundation for supporting such an impactful programme.

Impact Story

For our impact story, we stay in Kenya, at one of our community sand dam projects. The team were recently able to speak to Mary about how the newly built sand dam has improved her life.

Mary explained that with more water available, she can now grow kale, peppers, and bananas, all of which she sells to community members, along with seeds from her new tree nursery. When the team spoke to Mary, she was positive about the future:

We used to fetch water from the earth dam, which was far away and couldn’t be used for farming. Now, with the sand dam and shallow well, we have water nearby, making farming possible. I plan to plant more vegetables to sell and provide school fees for my children.

Cambodia

We are pleased to have rolled out our menstrual hygiene work into Cambodia.

The programme will reach a total of 1,604 children in seven schools, while training 63 teachers. The programme combines training for both teachers and students, as well as gender segregated latrines in the schools that don’t already have them.

We have no doubt that this will be a great success and we look forward to reporting on the impact of the menstrual hygiene work.

Zambia

We were delighted that our long-term partners BAC were able to join us on a project visit to Zambia, which was the focus of their 2024 corporate fundraising and as a result there were many BAC supported projects to visit.

The team saw the impact that borehole rehabilitations were having on communities in Zambia’s Mumbwa District, as well as the effect of new latrines in schools in Kalomo District.

The trip was a great success and we’d like to once again thank BAC for their generous support which made these projects possible.

Nicaragua

We are pleased to welcome our new partners, the Explore Foundation, who are supporting their first project with Just a Drop. The foundation will be supporting 136 people with a piped water system, which will provide 33 households with safe water directly to their homes.

On top of this, they’ll also be supporting watershed restoration. We will plant 2,500 trees to enhance rainwater infiltration, keeping local streams flowing and ensuring water availability. This will also help preserve soil quality, prevent soil erosion, and provide a source of food.

Uganda

Work is now underway at Akum Primary School.

The programme will reach 1,310 students and community members through the installation of a borehole, two rainwater harvesting tanks, as well as two new latrine blocks and five handwashing stations.

Once completed, the project will ensure a sustainable source of safe water, as well as hygiene and sanitation resources, for everybody at the school and in the local community.

India

n April, we began a project in Daha village which will provide 323 people with safe water, through the installation of a borehole which will provide piped water directly to people’s homes, as well as to the local school.

The community are currently reliant on a seasonal dam that dries up in February, at which point the community is forced to walk up to 3 kilometres in each direction to fetch water. This task usually falls to women and girls, adversely affecting their schooling and ability to work.

On top of the safe water aspect, we’ll also provide comprehensive hygiene and sanitation training to make sure that the community in Daha are better off for generations to come.

Awards

In May, we were very happy to win a Business Charity Award for our prosperous partnership with PPHE Hotel Group. We won the award in the ‘Sport, Travel, & Leisure’ category and the recognition is testament to the amazing work that PPHE do to support Just a Drop, raising tens of thousands of pounds each month through their ‘Green Housekeeping’ initiative.

At the same awards, we were also shortlisted with the Smiths Group Foundation for the Corporate Foundation of the Year Award.

We were further presented with a Highly Commended award at the National Fundraising Awards, once again for our partnership with PPHE, this time for ‘Charity-Business Partnership of the Year’.

Thank You!

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of our supporters for the tireless work they do to help Just a Drop to combat the water crisis. Every individual fundraiser, partner, and donor is an integral part of the Just a Drop family and we are so grateful for the generosity and selflessness of so many which allows us to reach people around the world with access to safe water.

We can’t do what we do without you, so if you would like to work with Just a Drop, please get in touch with our Partnerships and Events Manager Alice Murphy, at alice.murphy@justadrop.org.

Wishing you all the best and we hope to see you very soon.

The Just a Drop team.

P.S. Just a Drop relies on kind people like you to carry out the lifesaving work we do around the world. If you can spare even a small amount, it will make a world of difference. Visit our donate page to find out what your money can do: https://www.justadrop.org/donate/.