Charity worker from Manchester region helps build water tanks in Uganda

Hanna helps prepare dinner for other DRIP volunteers in Uganda.

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Seventy Ugandan families now have their own water tanks to see them through the country's drought season thanks in no small part to the efforts of a charity worker from the Manchester region.

Hanna Lambert, 25, teamed up with Sale Rotary Club to raise £1,600 worth of personal expenses and join a group of volunteers organised by the Wirral-based ‘Direct Rainwater Intervention Project’.

Lambert, a travel editor from the Sale area, helped construct 70 new rainwater collection systems in Uganda’s rural Palissa region, and trained the locals to use them to grow their own crops.

DRIP has visited the African country on seven previous occasions, installing more than 250 rainwater retention systems - each capable of supporting 10 people for a year.

“But building the tanks is only the beginning,” said Lambert. “We also provide horticulture training so the families know how to use the water to help combat any future threat of malnourishment, poverty, ill-health and premature death.

“But the volunteers have to pay their own way so that all DRIP resources can go to the Ugandan people who most need them. Sale Rotary Club helped last year’s local volunteer Jenny McGuckian and their continued support this year will be felt by the Ugandan families for a long time into the future.”

Sale Rotary Club president, John Taylor, added: “The DRIP volunteers are giving invaluable help to East African families but the experience is also something that will benefit Hanna, personally, for many years to come. Both are very good reasons for Rotary to help.”

For more details about Sale see www.salerotaryclub.com and for membership enquiries telephone Peter Munday on 0161 969 1391.