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Our water projects

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Making clean drinking water accessible in Dobe-Labala, Botswana

GiveMeTap is all about making water easily accessible for everyone, everywhere. By helping provide you with access to free water through our GiveMeTap water scheme, you enable us to fund water projects in Africa.

Partnering with our Friend's at Redbush Tea Company

GiveMeTap is once again joining forces with The Redbush Tea Company, as they share our passion for increasing accessibility to clean water and already donate a percentage of their profits to support the indigenous peoples of the Kalahari. You may remember that we partnered with them last year in providing a water borehole in the Bushman village of N≠ama in Namibia. Redbush have to date funded 4 boreholes in Namibia and Botswana, which is really about all the credentials we needed to start working with them! That and they make a fantastic cup of tea of course.

Helping to provide water to people in the Dobe-Labala Village

We are now focusing our efforts on a village in Botswana, close to the border fence with Namibia and not too far from N≠ama where we teamed up last year. In fact both villages are of Ju/’hoan* speaking Bushmen. The village is called Dobe-Labala and at present they have a 14km round trip on foot to reach what you or I would consider to be a pond and more often a muddy pool of water, shared by cattle and other wildlife. The image below is where they currently get their water from - it is far from clean!

Photography by Marie A. Heyes - The Redbush Tea Company

Giving Water and so much more

We know that water changes everything. At GiveMeTap we work hard to provide more people with access to water and also to use this new water supply to facilitate irrigation projects, so that the people in the villages can grow food for their families and have a more sustainable lifestyle. With Redbush Tea and of course your help we need to raise £20,000 to achieve the following essentials:

Site, drill and set up a borehole.
Install a water pump and solar panels
Install water tank and structure to keep this off the ground
Vegetable garden with fencing seeds and tools. This will help provide them with a sustainable food source now that they are now longer allowed to exist as hunter-gatherers.
Irrigation system to allow their vegetable garden to be watered
Water troughs for cattle to keep this separate from their own tap.
Rock wall to protect and secure the water installations from elelphant damage.

Creating Sustainable water projects

Sustainability is crucial to us. We want to ensure that once water is in place that it stays that way. With your help we can do all of this, as well as train the people of Dobe-Labala to maintain and care for their installation. We will also involve them with every stage of the construction and siting process, so that this is ‘their’ borehole and as such is an integral and valued part of their community. The Bushmen do not have a tribal society with a chief and so group involvement in decision making is critical to any projects long-term success.