The Ichupa Upcycle Project - Annual Report - October 2019

to finance their building expenses, acquire the masons
necessary to build their tanks, locate the plastic bottles and the
people needed to fill them, and ensured our team that the
construction of their tanks would be completed on time. In
having to deal with the foreign formalities of working with
The Project’s first year involved hundreds of community
members, thousands of primary school students, a dozen
trained masons, various technical advisors, a group of local
different sites and negotiating with new stakeholders, this
Project remained a unique opportunity for all of us as its main
stakeholders and beneficiaries.
friends with a tremendous amount of patience to construct nine
rainwater catchment tanks. These tanks utilized over 30,000
plastic bottles, and created a holding capacity of more than
40,000L for rainwater throughout the community of Mbale,
Uganda. A remarkable feat in just a short period of time.
This Project also inspired different communities to work
and speak with one another, inspiring collaboration using
grassroots advocacy and a multi-stakeholder commitment. With
being tasked to come up with their own solutions to any
programmatic issues that arose, these communities continued
30,000 BTLs
40,000L
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