Funded by Ryan’s Well Foundation/Rally4Life , The Samburu Project will drill and install a shallow well equipped with a handpump in the Nairisha community.

Narrative

Access to clean water is a big challenge for this community. They walk up to 4 kms each day in search of water. Children, especially girls, do not attend school because they follow their mothers in search of water.

With a well, the women will have enough time to do other economically sound businesses. There will be reduced cases of waterborne diseases. Water from the well will be used for both domestic and livestock usage.

There is a well a Sere Olipi Primary School that The Samburu Project drilled in 2011 that this community can access, however, it is estimated that 5,000 people are taking from this well daily. In 2011, The Samburu Project also drilled another well in Nairisha, however this well is too salty for human consumption. Instead it is being used for livestock and therefore highly valued and important to the people in the community.

The leaders from the Sere Olipi Community invited Lucas to a meeting a the chief's office while he was in Nairisha. They requested an additional well to be placed in Sere Olipi Trading Centre to ease the pressure on the Sere Olipi Primary School well. After Lucas deliberated with Kariuki, they felt that this was a genuine request.

Over two days, six sites were surveyed before finding a viable location.