Pallisa District, Eastern Uganda

Project · The water well

Clean water, on our doorstep.

The Anonymous Project built a water well on the school site, so the children have clean water where they live and learn.

Pupils gathered outside the school campus
Abu Musa Islamic Primary School The Anonymous Project

Partners since April 2025 · The Anonymous Project is a registered UK charity, no. 1215166 · theanonymousproject.com · theanonymousproject.org

Pupils collecting water at the well on the school grounds

Why it matters

One well, hundreds of lives.

Clean water means fewer sick days, safe cooking and water for wudu, right where the children live and learn.

The well stands on the school site and serves pupils, the children’s home and the wider community.

Every day, every child

What the well makes possible.

Water on site changes the whole school day, from the first meal to the last prayer.

شرب
Drinking

Safe to drink

Clean water for 240 children and every pupil, every day.

طبخ
Cooking

Safe meals

Water for the school kitchen that feeds the children daily.

نظافة
Washing

Health and hygiene

Washing that keeps illness away from the dormitories.

وضوء
Wudu

Ready for prayer

Water for ablution before salah in the school masjid.

What a well can do

The difference, in numbers.

300+

People served by each community well, up to 500.

Figures published by The Anonymous Project

25+

Years of clean water from a single well.

Figures published by The Anonymous Project

80%

Reduction in water-borne disease.

Figures published by The Anonymous Project

The Anonymous Project

“When the well was built, the children cried. Not from sadness, from joy.”

The water fundraiser

Help fund the next well.

At the time of writing, The Anonymous Project’s well fundraiser stood at £1,850 of a £2,500 target (74%). Check their site for the latest total.

£1,850 of £2,500 · at the time of writing

Donations are handled by The Anonymous Project (charity no. 1215166). This website never takes payment.

Give clean water that lasts.

Every gift to a well keeps giving for decades.