water for life and creating sustainable projects for the future of uganda dr. christopher opio unbc...

Water for Lifeand

Creating Sustainable Projects for the Future of

UgandaDr. Christopher Opio

UNBC Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science and ManagementPresentation to UNBC Community

16 March 2012

11:30 am

Outline

• Introduction to Uganda• Accomplishments of NUDF in Uganda

in 2011• Conclusion• Acknowledgements

Uganda(CIA, World Factbook; January 20, 2011)

• Location: Eastern Africa, west of Kenya• Area: total: 241,038 sq km (land: 197,100 sq km; water: 43,938

sq km)• Area-comparative: smaller than British Columbia• Population: 33,398,682 (July 2010 est.)• Population growth rate: 3.563% (2010 est.),

second in the world• Infant mortality rate:

total: 63.7 deaths/1,000 live birth male: 67.31 deaths/1,000 live birth female: 59.98 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)• Life expectancy at birth: total population : 52.98 years

male: 51.92 years female: 54.07 years (2010 est.)

President of UgandaYoweri Museveni

Purpose of NUDF

To design, fund, and deliver development projects that empower villagers in Northern

Uganda to create economically self-sustaining lifestyles that include safe water, adequate food

and access to fundamental health care and education services

Accomplishments of NUDF in Uganda in 2011

• 13 Water wells installed• Well water drilling machine bought• Water testing done• Soil samples from farmers’ fields collected and

being analysed at UNBC• Canada (Community) House almost complete• A two-ton truck bought• Solar panel and school supplies bought for a

Primary School• 50 goats bought and given to villagers• 8 Oxen bought and given to villagers• Had meetings with villagers

More than one in six people worldwide - 894 million - don't have access to safe freshwater.

www.unwaterer.org

Buga Village

Community members participate in land

clearing Drilling in progress

Technician fits a pump head

We currently have 42 wells serving over

50,000 people.

Between 1990 and 2005, Ugandalost 26.3 percent of its remainingforest cover, and deforestationcontinues today at a rate of 2.2percent per year, mostly due tosubsistence farming, cutting forfuel wood, and colonization by

the burgeoning population.

There may be hardship but also there is

Hope

Contact:www.nudf.org

Dr. C. Opio, President of NUDFE-mail: chris@nudf.org

Acknowledgements

• Volunteers• Financial Support from Individuals,

Schools, Businesses, organizations, etc.