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Dig Deep Impact Report 2012-13
www.digdeep.org.uk
Letter from the Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Thank you for taking the time to look at our Impact Report 2012/13. Peter Fitzsimmons
is Chairman of Dig Deep’s Board of Trustees. Peter co-founded the charity with Jo
Zeevi in 2007 and both remain actively engaged on the Board having overseen the
rapid increase in the impact of Dig Deep in alleviating water poverty in Kenya.
“When we first conceived of Dig Deep in 2007, Jo
and I were still students. We were introduced to
an inspirational woman Agnes Pareyio, the first
ever female Maasai councillor and UN Person of
the Year in 2005, and set out to raise £50,000
for our first project providing sustainable water
supplies to the community of Sakutiek. We did
this in 2008 and the project continues to provide
clean water to thousands of people.
From those early days, we have come on leaps
and bounds. That we have seen our income grow
from £64,000 to £319,000 during this period
with just a single member of sta in the UK, Ben
Skelton, is a testament to his dedication and the
marvellous support of our volunteers. Their
generosity of time and expertise combined with
the support of several partner organisations has
allowed us to grow during this dicult period for
charities across the sector. In particular the
engagement of over 200 UK students as Dig
Deep ambassadors has proved an innovative
approach to fundraising and proved to be a
mutually rewarding activity for those involved.
In Kenya the dedication of our fundraisers has
manifested itself in an unprecedented impact on a
whole host of dierent projects this year, some of
which are described in the following pages. They
have been conducted in the same spirit of
partnership as our first with Agnes and have been
expertly overseen by Anna Banyard, a talented
engineer and former volunteer who has joined our
team.
This year I had the privilege of accompanying the
Trustees on a visit. The highlight was undoubtedly
the community’s response at Kagasek where a
thousand community members assembled for the
opening ceremony of the rainwater harvesting
projects at the local schools. Everything I saw in
Kenya arms the direction Dig Deep is taking
and the high esteem in which our community led
model is held by the beneficiaries we work with.
When we look back on 2012/13 I have no doubt
we will see it as Dig Deep’s take-o year. The
progress organisationally and operationally has
been exponential.”
“My sincere thanks goes out to all of our
supporters and volunteers, whose gift of
time enhances everything that we do”
Our year in 30 seconds
INTRODUCTION- PAGE TWO
We created clean water supplies for
the communities of 10,000 people
We created clean water supplies for
over 2,000 school children
We continued to support the communities
of over 18,000 people in maintaining their
water supply
Over 300 volunteers supported our
work
3,155,769 steps were taken up
Kilimanjaro by our sponsored fundraisers
Rekero is a typical Maasai community in the
South-West of Kenya, with a rich cultural
tradition which revolves around caring for their
cattle.
Day to day life can be challenging because the
community have no choice but to collect water
from puddles when it rains or a contaminated
river during the dry season. This causes serious
health risks, especially for young children.
Across the world a child dies every 21 seconds
from a water related disease simply because
communities like Rekero don’t have access to
clean water and basic sanitation.
This is why Dig Deep works with schools like
Rekero Primary to ensure that their students no
longer have to be threatened by water borne
diseases when studying for their exams. Over
the last year we have been able to help Rekero’s
school management to install rainwater
catchment and storage on the school’s main
building. This system hygienically collects rain
falling onto the school’s roof and stores this in
nearby water tanks.
The rain water harvesting system has made a
vast improvement to the school’s water supply
and – crucially – the school will be able to
maintain it in the long term. Over the next year
Dig Deep will be working with the school to help
upgrade their toilet facilities and to develop a
plan to supply clean water to the wider
community.
Clean Water for Mara Students.
Rekero Primary School
“Life has improved greatly…I can
say I am very much happy and
thankful for the project” Josh
Omnega – Headteacher, Rekero
Primary School
DIG DEEP IMPACT REPORT 2012/13
At Dig Deep we know how important it is that
our projects are led by those that benefit from
them – the local community. We also know that
for a project to be successful, women must have
at least an equal role to men in making it
happen.
The Alton Maasai project is a community based
organisation which was started by a group of
women living in the remote Maasai community
of Oldanyati. They had a simple aim - to provide
their children with the education that they never
had. The local school was too far away for their
youngest children to walk to so there was only
one solution – they had to build their own pre-
school.
After years of hard work they were able to see
their dream realised with the construction of
their first classroom. This incredible achievement
took years of fundraising and months of back
breaking work during the construction process,
with the women carrying water over 7km to the
construction site from the nearest river. Within
the first month of opening the school had
enrolled 150 students – however, there were no
funds left to build toilets for the school. This was
a serious health risk that threatened to undo
everything that the women had worked so hard
to accomplish.
Dig Deep is assisting the Alton Maasai Project to
construct latrines for the students and sta. We
are now working to improve the school’s water
supply to ensure that the community have
everything they need to provide their children
Supporting mothers building a school
The Alton Maasai Project
PROJECT REPORT- PAGE FOUR
"The Alton Masaai Project is an incredible
initiative. The positivity and drive of the
local community has been inspiring to
see and the work that Dig Deep have
done in meeting the needs of the
community simply and eectively has
been exemplary. As the first project of its
kind in the local area its impact will
extend beyond the walls of the school
and out into the wider community." Liam
Garcia – Director—Long Well Walk
(Project Partner)
The Ndanai water project began with the aim of
getting clean water access to the ‘Small Home’ –
a centre for children with disabilities. The home
was reliant on water being carried from a local
contaminated
dam and was
in desperate
need of a clean
supply so that
the sta could
properly care
for the
children.
The project
was planned
with the local water committee – a group of
dedicated volunteers elected to manage the
community’s water resources. The project
initially involved the drilling of a deep well and
the construction of a solar powered pump, which
now supplies water to the Small Home, as well
as two local primary schools and community
water kiosks around Ndanai town.
The project was designed so that it can be
expanded in years to come, and the water
committee have already begun this task. They
are currently planning to install connections to
local businesses, five other schools and
additional community water Kiosks. Expanding
the project in this way will mean that even more
of the community will get access to clean water
and that, through selling the water at an
aordable rate, the water committee will raise
enough money to maintain the project in the
long term.
Dig Deep continues to support the water
committee by providing ongoing advice and
training, and we are also working together to
plan more projects in the area.
Community takes ownership.
The Ndanai water committee
“To us getting clean and safe water was a
nightmare, finally it has come to a reality.
We had suered needlessly without
access to clean and safe water. Children’s
academic performance was low as they
dealt with stomach ache, typhoid and
diarrhoea. Getting clean water will return
health and children will grow up healthy”
Justice – Director, Ndanai ‘Small Home’
DIG DEEP IMPACT REPORT 2012/13
Water and sanitation projects are about more
than just building infrastructure. If local
communities don’t have the knowledge and
skills needed to use the projects then the impact
will be limited and whatever gets built won’t be
maintained.
A key part of this is promoting hygienic
practices. In the community of Male (pronounced
Maalay) Dig Deep worked with the local water
committee to install a solar powered water
distribution system for their primary and
secondary schools. At the same time as
undertaking this work, we invested in hygiene
promotion training for the committee, which
communicated the need to treat water to make
sure it’s safe as well as the importance of
washing hands with soap.
This training session led to the committee
starting an education campaign in the school as
well as the wider community. As you can see in
the picture above, they installed model hand
washing stations so that students could practice
using soap. They also colour coded the taps at
the community water kiosk so people could
easily see which one dispenses water which has
been filtered and is safe to drink and which
should be used for other purposes like cleaning
and feeding livestock. These seemingly small
steps will make a huge dierence to cutting the
rate of water borne diseases.
It’s about more than building stu.
Male Community Hygiene Promotion
PROJECT REPORT - PAGE SIX
"The message that I would like to
send to Dig Deep's supporters is that
what they are doing is changing
people's lives, especially the next
generation’s who are coming up" –
Charles – Male Community Leader
Kagasek Girls school in Western Kenya was
set up to address the fact that in their
community education is still perceived as a
luxury for young women and girls. Almost all
schools in Kenya have to charge for
education in order to survive, but Kagasek
deliberately kept their school’s fees very low
to ensure that girls from the most deprived
backgrounds could attend.
Since 2010 the school has provided an
education to 50 girls who could not
otherwise aord to attend class. However,
lack of funding meant that the school’s only
reliable sources of water were contaminated
dams shared with livestock. To make
matters worse, these dams were located on
private land and so the girls could be denied
access to even these sources at any time.
As a result the girls’ education suered due
to both the time lost collecting water and the
inevitable impact of water borne diseases.
Also, many girls who could aord to attend
the school chose not to because of the risks
involved and social stigma attached to using
these water sources.
Dig Deep and the school worked hard to
change this by installing a simple rainwater
harvesting system. The impact on the school
was dramatic – enrolment went up from 50
to over 150 girls in just two months. The
wider community also made their feelings
about the project evident with over 1,000
people attending the project’s opening
ceremony to celebrate. Over the next year
Dig Deep plan to work with the school to
help them improve sanitation facilities for
the girls as well as arranging locally
instructed hygiene workshops.
Water securing education for young women and girls.
Kagasek Girl’s School
“The enrolment has gone up. In fact
there are so many girls who have
joined us so now from the 50 girls
we had we have 150” – Katherine
Kauria, Principal of Kagasik Girls’
Secondary School
DIG DEEP IMPACT REPORT 2012/13
2012 saw over 100 participants take on
international challenges such as climbing
Kilimanjaro, Mt Toubkal and trekking the
Great Wall of China in aid of Dig Deep.
The challenges programme galvanises a
section of the population that are
regarded as typically under engaged with
charitable giving. Our experiences
fundraising with students has proved that
they are imaginative, creative and very
passionate about the challenges people
face in the developing world.
The highlight of this year was the media
frenzy caused by Julia McGill’s innovative
use of Ebay and social media. Having
listed an empty Evian bottle with all
‘proceeds’ going to Dig Deep and raising
the princely sum of £2 she proceeded to
list a cardboard iphone cut out and to
write a product description bristling with
wit and humour. A retweet from Stephen
Fry later and the charity was busy dealing
with press enquiries from around the
world. The bidding got up to over
£200,000 before Ebay removed the
listing but the value in exposure to the
charity was invaluable. Julia also received
many donations for her sponsorship from
those she had brought a smile to.
Raising awareness of Dig Deep and
water poverty amongst students in the
UK is one of the most rewarding aspects
of the programme. The funds raised by
their hard work have formed the bedrock
of our expenditure plans. We thank them
for their contribution and dedication to
Dig Deep.
OUR SUPPORTERS - PAGE EIGHT
OUR SUPPORTERS: International Challenges
OUR SUPPORTERS: Partner Organisations
A Better World Canada
A Better World Canada are an international
development charity who have been investing in
projects in Kenya for over 20 years. We have been
working together since 2011 and have so far completed
large scale water and sanitation projects in three
communities, including the Ndanai and Male
communities mentioned in previous pages. We are
currently in the process of planning more community
projects for completion over the coming year.
The AV Foundation
The AV Foundation was set up in 1994 with the aim of
increasing the quality of education in the communities
served by AV volunteers. Their focus is on educational
infrastructure such as the building of classrooms,
libraries, dormitories, washrooms and water provision.
It was thanks to a grant from the AV Foundation that
Dig Deep was able to complete the Kagasek Girl’s
school project described in this report, as well as an
equally worthwhile project in the community’s primary
school. This is the second time that the AV Foundation
have been able to support our projects and we hope to
continue to work with them in years to come.
The Long Well Walk
The Long Well Walk is a small, volunteer run charity
working since 2012 to create sustainable water projects
in eleven countries across Southern and Eastern Africa.
As part of this they are attempting a world record
10,000 mile walk from Sheeld to Cape Town, to raise
awareness of the problems faced by communities en
route, between March 2014 and October 2015.
Over the last year The Long Well Walk introduced Dig
Deep to the Alton Maasai Project, worked with us to
plan the project there and awarded Dig Deep with the
funding to make it happen. Over the next year we look
forward to working closely with the Long Well Walk on
future collaborations.
DIG DEEP IMPACT REPORT 2012/13
OUR PARTNERS: Case Study
Local Partnerships: The Olare Orok Motorogi Trust
Dig Deep was founded by two UK students working in partnership with Agnes Paryio (Maasai
Women’s rights activist and UN Person of the year) and our projects continue to be led by
local leaders and organisations that live and work in the communities we serve.
One of these partnerships is with the Olare Orok Motorogi Trust (OOMT). The vision of
OOMT is to ensure the long-term conservation of the Maasai Mara ecosystem through
empowering periphery communities to gain significant and tangible benefits from
conservation.
Over the last three years we have worked with OOMT to support and improve existing
community water projects and install rainwater harvesting in schools. We have also just
provided funding for OOMT to employ a new member of sta - a local Maasai lady called
Evelyn Lasoi. Evelyn works as a hygiene campaign ocer, which involves visiting schools and
members of the local community to promote safe hygiene practices such as building pit
latrines.
Working with partners like OOMT is vital to the success of our projects. Not only do their sta
and volunteers speak the local language and understand the community, they also bring
other specialist knowledge to the table. For example, OOMT are able to advise us on the best
locations for new water projects to reduce human wildlife conflict by ensuring that herdsmen
no longer have to take their cattle to water sources that are in areas inhabited by endangered
animals such as lions and elephants.
OUR SUPPORTERS - PAGE TEN
OOMT Community Meeting
FINANCIAL REPORT—Overview
During this period Dig Deep raised £319,137 in income available to the
charity from the general public and grant-making bodies (2012 - £63,929).
This substantial growth in income was due to a wider engagement of young people with our
overseas projects and events as well as increased support from international grant-making
bodies.
One of the charity’s key sources of income is generated through Challenge Events, such as
Climbing Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Depending on the event in question around 25-50% of the
funds raised by participants go towards the costs of the event, with all remaining fundraising
income available to the charity. A substantial proportion of the funds raised for the cost of the
event are contributed by the challenge participants themselves and connected persons.
Members of the public are made fully aware when they choose to make contributions to the
costs of an event.
The income and expenditure for the charity for this period, net of the income and costs of
Challenge Events, were as shown opposite.
Over this period the trustees chose to increase resources for fundraising and governance
activities. Given that the charity has been able to increase its income by 500% and has made
substantial improvements to the organisation’s governance structures, the trustees feel that
this has been a sound investment. It has meant that Dig Deep has been able to expand its
project programme to meet the needs of thousands more beneficiaries and has safeguarded
the sustainability of the organisation, allowing the charity to develop long term partnerships
in the field.
These partnerships have allowed the charity to build up a considerable project pipeline.
Although the charity held a significant surplus of funding at the end of this period, the vast
majority has been allocated to projects scheduled for implementation in the second half of
2013.
DIG DEEP IMPACT REPORT 2012/13
Male Primary School Project
2012
Income and expenditure for the charity for this period, less costs of
Challenge Events
GRAPH - Income and Expenditure
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OUR SUPPORTERS - PAGE TWENTY
“I think the Dig Deep concept is the way to improve the world….working on supplying key infrastructure for energy and water. Face it, without these two elements there can be no improved living conditions, and no economic activity.”
Jon Bohmer – CEO: Kyoto Energy - Winner of the Financial Times Climate Change Challenge Award
“We have partnered with Dig Deep in drilling a borehole in Maasai-land in Kenya and we appreciate their cooperation and innovativeness and their ability to listen to the community and other stake-holders…coming up with better and sustainable solutions on getting accessible and clean water for domestic use.
The co-founders, Jo and Peter, might not be heroes and heroines in the UK but here they are celebrated for having brightened up the faces of many women who walk long distances before (almost ten hours) to look for this precious commodity.”
James Sakuda – Program Manager: World Concern International
TESTIMONIALS
DIG DEEP IMPACT REPORT 2012/13
CONTACT US
www.digdeep.org.uk
tel: +44 (0)114 360 0040
www.facebook.com/digdeepafrica
OUR SUPPORTERS - PAGE TWENTY TWO