Your support will help improve water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) resources at healthcare facilities of the Mbinga and Nyasa Districts, and help save lives!

All four of the healthcare facilities in this project suffer from a lack of access to a consistent potable water supply to serve the HCFs, the buildings within the compound including the schools, churches, the staff quarters, and also provide community water taps to the communities surrounding each of the HCFs. The sanitation infrastructure is either very dilapidated or non-existent. Patients, staff, and the communities surrounding the HCFs are challenged to find adequate and safe places to defecate, perpetuating the contamination cycle which negatively impacts human health and the environment.

This 4-healthcare facility project was introduced to WEFTA by our partners working in rural disadvantaged communities in Tanzania. WEFTA has been working with our in-country partner, Sanitation and Water Action (SAWA), on the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) resources improvement project for the central hospital in the region, Mpapa Hospital. These 4 healthcare facilities (HCFs) are satellite facilities within the Mbinga and Nyasa Districts and, like Mpapa Hospital, are also run by the Benedictine Sisters of the Mbinga Diocese.

Thank you for making a positive impact with us!