Lightbulb Teams’ Water Filter Distribution in Uganda
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August 18, 2022
The Lightbulb Teams travelled the length and breadth of Uganda, delivering life-saving water filters built by our incredible clients, during the Water Works activity.
Uganda Distribution
We left Dublin airport feeling slightly nervous but mainly excited to meet the recipients of those receiving the water filters as part of the Water Works programme. While there, we also planned to visit a local school and donate the classic wooden toys built by teams during our brand new activity, Toy for Life!
Donating Water Filters
Touchdown in Uganda, we commenced the 10-hour journey to Arua, feeling tired and unsure as to what lay ahead. Once we got to the first camp and were able to give out over 80 clean water filters each day, we were overwhelmed with gratitude for our amazing clients, who have helped build the water filters. We simply could not do this without them. A special thanks to our wonderful friends at LinkedIn and Merck, who took part in building the filters ahead of our trip.
We were blown away by the recipients faith, kindness, resilience and passion for their families and the community. Many families have suffered illnesses including typhoid, cholera and even loss of life from stagnant puddles in which they take the water to drink and cook with.
Seeing the extent of this drove home the importance of the Water Works programme and how easily cases can be avoided. Our clients build and donate vital water filters that change lives of individuals, families and communities.
Toy for Life Programme
During the trip, Lightbulb Teams’ visited a school in which we were able to deliver beautiful wooden toys, built by our fantastic clients, as part of our new Toy for Life programme. It was exciting for us to see the children play with the toys, while the team also got to act like big kids too!
The refugee children we met had fled Congo, Somalia, and many other destinations to make Uganda their home.
Uganda Distribution
In 15 days we racked up over 80 hours travelling thousands of miles in the back of a 4ร4 across this beautiful country.ย Along the way we were in touching distance of elephants, hippos, giraffes, and even a leopard!
But the meaningful impact from our Water Works distribution touched us more.
CSR Client Appreciation
The reason for the trip was never far from our thoughts. We will never forget our time there and the amazing people we met along the way. It’s only made our team more focused on providing meaningful team building programmes that will help build better teams, while changing more lives across the world.
We cannot thank our clients enough for all their support and the tremendous work they have done in helping those less fortunate. You have made all of this meaningful change possible.
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