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Our Vision

We envision a world where every student has the opportunity to learn and grow in a healthy environment, starting with access to safe and clean drinking water in their school.

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Our mission is to make safe drinking water accessible to as many students as possible through scalable and lasting solutions.

Globally, 546 million students lack basic drinking water, affecting 1 in 3 schools worldwide and 2 in 3 in Africa.

Source: WHO Unicef Joint Monitoring

Our Founding Story:

Before Impact Water launched in Uganda in 2014, affordable drinking water treatment options for schools were scarce.

Through small-scale pilot projects, we started to develop and refine scalable, cost-effective solutions to address this urgent need.

Today, we provide safe drinking water treatment to more than 25 million students across Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda - transforming lives and ensuring a healthier future.

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Where We Work:

We launched with small pilots projects in 2014 and now aim to make universal coverage of safe drinking water systems a reality in schools across Africa.

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UGANDA

NIGERIA

KENYA

Year of
Launch:

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Current Partner Schools:

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Students Reached:

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2017

2014

2016

19,019

2,937

38,855

7,695,869

2,275,564

14,695,746

Impact Water field agent training school staff on water treatment
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“I feel so proud and impressed knowing that a student somewhere will not go through what I went through when growing up, missing school days because of related waterborne diseases that I couldn’t understand at the moment.”

—   Olabode O., Impact Water, Nigeria