Dig Deep

Coordination sounds boring.

A lack of it is also the reason so many development programmes fail or duplicate.

Across Bomet County, the WASH Hub - a government department Dig Deep helped establish - is changing that.

Every month the Hub brings together county departments, the local water utility, NGO partners including the Kenya Red Cross, World Vision and Aqua Clara, and Dig Deep. Together, we share progress, identify gaps and align our plans.

This year, the Hub rolled out a shared digital reporting platform. For the first time, every partner reports data in the same format, on the same system, every month.

Before this existed, NGOs would deliver projects without knowing what government was already planning. Government would plan without knowing what NGOs had already built.

Now, decision makers can see - in real time - what is happening across the county and where support is most needed.

Not just a meeting. A shared system that makes duplication harder and progress easier to sustain.

Thank you to all our partners and supporters who help make this work possible.

Sometimes the most important room in a school isn't the classroom. It's the one nobody wants to talk about.

When school toilets are safe, private and well maintained, girls stay in school during their periods. They stay throughout the day. They stay year after year.

When they are not - attendance drops, confidence dips, and the gap in girls' education widens.

Dig Deep works with our partners to design school toilets with this in mind: separate facilities for boys and girls, private and secure, with handwashing stations alongside. Alongside the infrastructure, we deliver sensitive, inclusive menstrual health education - helping to break down the taboos that too often leave girls without the information they need.

Safe toilets. Menstrual health education. Maintenance that lasts.

That's what keeping girls in school actually looks like. Thank you to everyone helping make it happen.