Hand pump water well in Mika, Wakiso

Before this well, the nearest water in Mika and the villages around it was an open pond. Families drank from it because there was nothing else within reach.

You answered, and families in Mika now draw clean, safe water close to home.

The first gallery below is that pond. Green, still, open to livestock and to whatever washes in off the surrounding land, and the only source the community had. Women and children walked down to it, balanced on logs laid across the water, and filled their jerrycans by hand. What they carried home is what they drank, cooked with and washed in.

Waterborne illness follows a source like that. Diarrhoeal disease, typhoid and worms are the ordinary cost of drinking surface water, and they fall heaviest on children. The hours spent walking and carrying are hours not spent in school or earning a living, and that burden sits almost entirely on women and girls.

A sealed well is the answer to that. Instead of surface water that anything can get into, the well draws clean water from deep underground, away from whatever runs across the land. One well serves the whole community, every day, for years.

The work took place in Mika village, Wakiso District. We surveyed the site with the community, drilled the well and fitted the hand pump. A concrete base and a drainage channel take spilled water away, so it doesn't pool around the pump. Our field team sourced and installed it all locally, and in August 2026 we handed the finished well over to the village and marked it with a permanent site plaque.

Clean water is Sadaqah Jariyah at its plainest, a gift whose benefit keeps going for as long as people draw from the well.

Thank you for trusting us with Mika. We hope Allah accepts what you gave, and that the reward keeps flowing with the water.