Student volunteers to fight water and period poverty
Rosie Bornoff, a student from Ross-On-Wye and an undergraduate at the University of Exeter, has volunteered with Hope Spring to help fight period poverty. The announcement was made at Hope Spring office in Hereford on Monday 20th of June, the same day Rosie started...
Man ran 100th half marathon to raise funds for water poverty alleviation
Ewyard Harold-Herefordshire based long distance runner, Richard Evans ran Hereford half marathon on the Sunday 8th May, 2022 to raise funds for Hope Spring water charity. Mr Evans, a long term supporter of Hope Spring poverty alleviation projects, put on his running...
5 popular UK websites for birthday donation
A donation birthday gift is when you ask friends and family for a donation to charity in lieu of birthday gift giving. You can ask your loved ones to make a donation birthday gift through any of the platforms below, and it’s a fantastic way to make your celebrations...
First project in 2022: Improving access to WASH services in a Nigerian school
Hope Spring, in conjunction with some generous donors, has embarked on a clean water project in a secondary school in Ilorin, an ancient town located in the northern part of Nigeria. The project will ensure that the students, teaching and non-teaching staff of...
Gauthier Jacqmin
Gauthier Jacqmin has recently completed a law degree at the London School of Economics. He is volunteering for a couple of months before starting the Legal Practice Course in the UK. Gauthier became strongly aware of the importance of the human right to water after...
The Dry Season
The Autumn heralds the start of the dry season in West Africa. While this can bring great strain on some of the poorest communities who are struggling to access clean water, it is also the best time to drill wells and boreholes. For our teams in Nigeria, Sierra Leone...
#ClaimYourWaterRights – Communique issued at the end of one-day Water Rights Workshop in Enugu
Introduction Hope Spring Water in collaboration with 11 civil society organisations in enugu state under a coalition called #ClaimYourWaterRight and working to promote water accountability and accessibility in Enugu state held a One-Day water stakeholders roundtable...
Human Rights to Water: The Role of the National Human Rights Commission
After emphasizing the aim of #ClaimYourWaterRights as a grassroots sensitization campaign aimed at sensitizing and mobilising people to Claim their human right to water and sanitation. Everyone, everywhere irrespective of their class, age, gender have a right to safe...
Federal and State Water Projects in Enugu State
#ClaimYourWaterRights has been making a series of efforts toward alleviating water poverty in Enugu state to increase water production in the state. The former director of the state ministry of water resources Engineer Fidelis Okeke was invited to speak and state...
Affordability, Availability & Accessibility of Water in Enugu amidst the COVID-19
The radio program was an interactive section between the host and the guest after highlighting the challenges faced in accessing clean water in Enugu amid COVID-19 by Ifeoma. Also emphasising how the campaign works towards alleviating water poverty in Enugu through...