safe water and sustainable hygiene initiative(SAWASHI)
Across the western rural part of kenya, We Are United in Our Dedication to ensure every person has access to clean water and sanitation.
Who We Are
Partnering to build a world where everyone has access to clean water.
Safe water and sustainable hygiene initiative is a non-governmental organization registered with the NGO-Coordination board in Kenya. Sawashi founded in November 2015 as a community based organization (CBO)and later on attained the (NGO)registration in November 2016.
Since inception, the organization has successfully drilled and equipped over 20 boreholes ,rehabilitated over 40 boreholes and shallow wells for communities and equipped them with handpumps and wells as constructed a water supply for a school abstracting water from a spring.
The organization has been supporting operation and maintenance of 180existing rural water points fitted with handpumps in western Kenya in bid to enhance access to reliable services in rural Kenya.
We believe every community has the ability to enhance their quality of life: and it all begins by having access to convenient, safe and reliable drinking water. It is because of this deep belief that we work to ensure water is within reach of deserving communities to relieve in particularly women and girls who often suffer to collect water.
Safe water is a medicine and an antidote to many preventable illness especially in children under 7years of age.
We invest in reliable water points because we believe running water is the first step to meaningful development.
Our Approach
We Facilitate Safe Drinking water and Sustainable Hygiene
We believe working with all people regardless of their color, race, age, religion or creed is working for our creator. We do not engage in activities that deny fellow human beings their rights and dignity, instead we work to advance and preserve the dignity of life by ensuring access to basic water services for all.
Throughout our work we empower people to be proactive. We believe when people are empowered they actively take action and ownership of their circumstances hence make the right choices to advance their wellbeing.
We work with people in need to change the conditions that deny them access to safe and reliable drinking water.
We realize our work is complex and resources to reach more people remain limited. We believe through coordination and collaboration we are able to continuously improve our capacity, efficiency and effectiveness in our work with like minded individuals, organizations and institutions towards enhancing access to reliable drinking water and sanitation.
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— Our Mission
To enhance access to safe, convenient and reliable drinking water and sustainable sanitation through drilling of boreholes, rehabilitation of boreholes and shallow wells, spring protections and offering long-term operation and maintenance support through a robust water point functionality monitoring program.
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— Our Vision
At Safe Water And sustainable Hygiene initiative(SAWASHI) we envision a world where every individual regardless of their circumstances has access to reliable drinking water and sanitation facilities. We believe that access to water is a fundamental right and through our dedicated efforts we strive to create sustainable solutions that empower communities and transform lives.
03.
— Our Story
We believe truth is effortless. By Saying the truths, we build trust eliminate unfairness and create honest avenues for feedback.
Truthfulness help us learn, innovate and continuously improve our work and the people we serve.