Aqua4Kush

Are you ready to give back to Sudan?

Our country is slowly coming back. Let’s make an impact together.

The war in Sudan has consumed far more than you think.

Its schools no longer have clean water to drink.

And students struggle to learn when even the essentials are missing.

Aqua4Kush brings clean water to the schools of Sudan, to the land of Kush.

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School water in Sudan is unsafe, too hot, or both

Mazinco93 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Unsafe.

Sediment and bacteria in open tanks make children sick.

Petr Adam Dohnálek · CC BY-SA 3.0

Too hot.

Water left in a tank under the sun is too hot for a child to drink.

Aamirco · Public domain

Coolers break.

Electric coolers need steady power, and break with no one nearby to fix them.

So children drink less, or drink worse.

A complete system is one water path, from the filter to the tap. This cooling structure is built and running at one school; the filtration stage is what the current fundraise pays for.

  1. Water filters

    Pre-filters and a membrane, matched to the school’s water test, make the water safe to drink.

  2. A tank to store it

    Holds the treated water, so the taps run all school day even when the supply doesn’t.

  3. A Sudanese brick cooling structure

    The zeer, scaled up: wet hollow brick cools the pipes by evaporation. No electricity, nothing to break.

  4. New taps

    To be decided

    New taps for students to drink from.

Neither stage alone gets a child to drink four glasses of clean water in a school day.

Our progress in the state of Khartoum

Phase 1 Complete

طيبة الحسناب Taiba El Hasanab

The brick cooling structure is built here and in daily use, serving pupils through several taps along its top edge.

  • In daily use
  • Taps along its top edge
The brick cooling structure under its roof

Phase 2 Underway

مدرسة الصالحة غرب الثانوية بنات El Salha West Secondary School for Girls, Omdurman

A government girls’ secondary school in Omdurman locality, founded in 2020. The brick cooling structure stands in the schoolyard, fed from the school’s own storage tank and drawn from taps along its top edge.

  • Omdurman locality
  • Founded 2020
  • Girls’ secondary
The storage tank that feeds the structure
The cooling structure in the schoolyard, taps along its top edge
The school gate, Omdurman locality

Phase 3 Coming soon

More schools, if we find the support

Phase 3 goes ahead when enough people and organisations stand behind it. Help us reach the next school.

Help make it happen

Aqua4Kush is run by Sudanese students, without paid staff. Organising happens from Malaysia; building happens on the ground through local contractors and suppliers.

Your help is needed

A fundraise for our next project

A water vessel, half full
Funded
50%
Raised so far
$1,000
Target
$2,000

Updated by hand when gifts clear. It is not a live feed, and we would rather say so.

We publish what was spent Each campaign publishes what it raised for, what was spent and what was built, documented in photographs at each stage. Donors to a student initiative extend trust a registered charity would earn by audit; showing the work in full is the substitute.
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Fair questions

Things people ask before they give

Most schools already have a supply. What they do not have is a supply that is safe to drink and cool enough that children will drink it. Adding a source does not fix either of those; treating what arrives does.

Yes. Organisations can fund a complete installation end to end and get the build documented and reported back. That is the sponsor track above, and it is the one case where naming a site is straightforward.

Cartridges are consumables and are meant to be changed. A member of school staff is trained on cartridge changes and basic checks at handover, and the first stock is included in what a campaign funds.

A tank is warming up right now

It will be warm by the time the bell goes, unless enough of us make it otherwise.

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