Water Blogged

Huruma Centre is part of the Iringa Diocese Charity Center for vulnerable children. Huruma is a children’s home in Iringa, Tanzania which provides a safe home, nutrition, and education for children who have no family or others to care for them. Huruma has a total of 66 children who live at the centre. There are 4 dormitories for the 29 boys and 37 girls (2 each) where the children stay with matrons. These buildings have been updated and include modern toilets. Access to water is the most important issue they face in order to keep their dormitories clean and safe for the children.

The Centre built a daycare on the property that provides services for families in the local community which generates some income to help them with expenses. Instead of purchasing food, they invested in livestock and cultivate crops/vegetables to provide food for themselves. They also sell food to the local community to generate additional income. They are a living example of the age-old saying “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”

Previously, they accessed water from the Iringa urban water system which was difficult for them to afford. They have a small rainwater catchment tank and a hand-dug shallow well on the property, but these do not provide enough water for their needs.

Our implementing partner, St. Paul Partners, provided access to clean water by drilling a deep borehole well with a submersible pump on the Huruma Centre property. Not only will they have safe water for drinking, but for bathing, washing clothes/bedding, cleaning the buildings, watering their crops, maintaining their livestock, and many other things.