This project was constructed at a health clinic. Safe health practices require safe water within reach. When nurses and doctors spend time walking for water or boiling that water to guarantee it’s safe, they lose precious minutes helping their patients.

The surrounding community will also have access to this water project, which means the water they bring home each day is safe enough to drink and won’t make them sick. Now they're walking significantly less each day to get water for their families, which means each household can use up to 15 liters per person per day!

This charity: water clinic project cost more than the average water project because it includes not only a clean water source, but toilets for doctors, nurses and patients, too. Before, there wasn't a clean, private place to use the bathroom, which is essential for preventing waterborne disease. Your money has provided patients and health care providers here with improved sanitation (toilets), which can reduce diarrheal deaths by as much as 32%. You've also helped build handwashing stations here so everyone can practice safe hygiene.

Note: Watch a video from charity: water’s Director of Digital about the impact your campaign has made for families in Rwanda.

Note: This project is part of a large gravity-fed system, serving many within the community. These projects are typically more expensive than traditional projects, the cost of the project was shared with several project sponsors.