Ayago Dolkema, communty borehole
Ayago Dolkema is a community in Northern Uganda, located in the Acholi Sub-region, Bwobo-Tochi Subcounty. The community is home to more than 100 families who previously faced challenges accessing safe and clean drinking water. In 2025, a borehole fitted with a manual hand pump was successfully drilled to provide a reliable source of clean drinking water. The project has improved access to safe water and is helping to improve the health and well-being of families in the community.
Why a scheme and not a pump
A health centre needs water at the point of use, not two hundred metres away, and the trading centre around it had outgrown what one hand pump can deliver in a day. A single pump would have produced a queue rather than a service.
What was built
Sixteen panels drive a submersible pump into a six-metre tower carrying a 10,000-litre tank. Distribution from the tank is gravity-fed to four tap stands, so nothing downstream of the tank depends on the sun or on a moving part.
Running it
The committee collects a small tariff per jerrycan. Over the first year that has covered the maintenance contract without further subsidy, which is the test that matters — a scheme that needs an annual grant to stay running has not been handed over, it has been lent.
What changed for households
- Walk to water
- 55 min10 min
- Wait at the source
- 70 min9 min
45 minutes saved on every trip
61 minutes saved on every trip
Project timeline
Four tap stands commissioned
Including one inside the health centre compound, which until now carried water by hand from the trading centre.Tank tower raised
The six-metre tower and 10,000-litre tank were assembled on site over four days, ahead of the panel array.
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