Ushiriki Wema Embarks On An Initiative To Support Communities Access Clean And Sustainable Water Supplies

A Pio­neer Pro­gramme Took Place With The Com­mis­sion­ing Of Bore­holes At Kigan­jo Police Col­lege, Nyeri Count

By Anders Ihachi 

Worth Not­ing:

• Ushiri­ki Wema whose sole­ly goal tar­gets improv­ing the well-being of the pop­u­la­tion, has pio­neered the pro­gramme for its 2025 cal­en­dar at the Kenya Police Train­ing Col­lege in Kigan­jo, Nyeri Coun­ty on a jour­ney that will spread in oth­er police insti­tu­tions before spread­ing to tar­get­ed com­mu­ni­ty areas.
• Madam Tessie said the first phase will include com­mis­sion­ing of bore­holes at the Nation­al Police Col­lege, Embakasi A cam­pus, the Gen­er­al Ser­vice Police Unit in Embakasi B cam­pus, the Gen­er­al Ser­vice Police Unit Dri­ve Camp along Out­er­ing road and the Utawala Acad­e­my in Embakasi Nairo­bi Coun­ty.
• “This pio­neer pro­gramme runs under the part­ner­ship between Ushiri­ki Wema, the Nation­al Police Ser­vice and Reg­n­er Fu Cap­i­tal Group and by March 2026 we want to have achieved our tar­get,” not­ed Madam Tessie Musalia.

Ushiri­ki Wema, an eco­nom­ic empow­er­ment foun­da­tion has embarked on a pro­gramme aimed at sup­port­ing com­mu­ni­ties access clean and sus­tain­able water across var­i­ous parts of the coun­try.

The pro­gramme tar­gets pro­vi­sion of sus­tain­able and local­ized water through drilling and instal­la­tion of bore­holes in insti­tu­tions and tar­get­ed com­mu­ni­ty envi­rons.

Ushiri­ki Wema chair­per­son Madam Tessie Musalia, the spouse to Prime Cab­i­net Sec­re­tary Musalia Mudava­di said the ini­tia­tive is part of the broad­er vision of the foun­da­tion that tar­gets envi­ron­men­tal con­ser­va­tion, health and san­i­ta­tion as one of the key pil­lars of its sus­tain­able pro­grammes.

“Through this project we are focus­ing on active­ly con­tribut­ing to cli­mate resilience and the bore­holes will be a crit­i­cal source of water that will reduce depen­den­cy on exter­nal water sup­plies thus help mit­i­gate the impact of water short­ages caused by the ever-chang­ing cli­mate pat­terns,”  said Tessie

Ushiri­ki Wema whose sole­ly goal tar­gets improv­ing the well-being of the pop­u­la­tion, has pio­neered the pro­gramme for its 2025 cal­en­dar at the Kenya Police Train­ing Col­lege in Kigan­jo, Nyeri Coun­ty on a jour­ney that will spread in oth­er police insti­tu­tions before spread­ing to tar­get­ed com­mu­ni­ty areas.

Madam Tessie said the first phase will include com­mis­sion­ing of bore­holes at the Nation­al Police Col­lege, Embakasi A cam­pus, the Gen­er­al Ser­vice Police Unit in Embakasi B cam­pus, the Gen­er­al Ser­vice Police Unit Dri­ve Camp along Out­er­ing road and the Utawala Acad­e­my in Embakasi Nairo­bi Coun­ty.

“This pio­neer pro­gramme runs under the part­ner­ship between Ushiri­ki Wema, the Nation­al Police Ser­vice and Reg­n­er Fu Cap­i­tal Group and by March 2026 we want to have achieved our tar­get,” not­ed Madam Tessie Musalia.

“This is also in line with Pres­i­dent William Ruto’s call to com­bat envi­ron­men­tal degra­da­tion and cli­mate change, and two years ago we went into an envi­ron­men­tal tree plant­i­ng and con­ser­va­tion part­ner­ship with the Nation­al police ser­vice to sup­port the real­iza­tion of 30% for­est and tree cov­er by plant­i­ng at least 15 bil­lion trees by the year 2032 as direct­ed by the Pres­i­dent,” she added.

The Ushiri­ki Wema chair­per­son said the oth­er than sup­port­ing domes­tic use, the water will be used for nur­tur­ing the trees and sup­port­ing afforesta­tion efforts through con­tin­u­ous irri­ga­tion.

She was speak­ing at Kigan­jo Police Train­ing Col­lege in Nyeri Coun­ty where 4,000 trees have already been plant­ed under the “Kuzin­ga­tia Mazin­gi­ra Yetu” ini­tia­tive and a fur­ther 11,000 both indige­nous and fruit trees hav­ing been plant­ed across the coun­try.

“What stands out is that there is dire need for water for both the pop­u­la­tion and envi­ron­men­tal con­ser­va­tion. The nat­ur­al water sources are not enough as some have been deplet­ed. A humon­gous task aris­ing from the finan­cial oblig­a­tions and tech­ni­cal aspects call for a col­lec­tive effort and coor­di­na­tion from both donors, part­ners and the gov­ern­ment ” not­ed Madam Tessie.

She said they are engag­ing experts as they roll out the pro­gramme for the coor­di­na­tion to be seam­less and achieve tan­gi­ble and prac­ti­cal results.

“We are also bank­ing on the good rela­tion­ships with com­mu­ni­ties sur­round­ing the police insti­tu­tions in this first phase. We want the water to ben­e­fit a large pop­u­la­tion and the good will of the peo­ple will go a long way to also help us seek and get sup­port from strate­gic devel­op­ment part­ners ” she explained.

Madam Tessie also called on stronger part­ner­ship between the police and com­mu­ni­ties say­ing it will go a long way in build­ing more resilient and sus­tain­able progress on mat­ters that touch on envi­ron­ment, san­i­ta­tion and health.

Madam Tessie who was accom­pa­nied by among oth­ers Reg­n­er Fu Cap­i­tal Group  (RFCG) team led by Mr. Kent Kagicha, Head of Busi­ness was host­ed by the Col­lege Com­man­dant Nyale Munga and oth­er senior offi­cials.