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Greetings from Uganda! This is Justus. He is the head teacher of Step Up Primary School, a mixed school in the rural area of Nakayiba in Masaka with 554 students.

Step Up School has requested a loan to cover the cost of installing and maintaining a UV water filtration system to provide clean drinking water for its students. The school does not currently have access to consistent clean drinking water and therefore has to spend a considerable portion of its budget on firewood, which is used to boil water for the children. Installing a water filtration system will therefore save the school money in the long-term as the cost of firewood will be reduced. The loan will enable the school to purchase a UV water treatment system with a 450 liter tank, which will be big enough to store clean drinking water for the students every day.

Step Up School will repay their loan from their school fees, which they collect each term. Justus ultimately hopes that having access to safe drinking water will improve students' concentration and attendance by reducing the number of children that fall sick from water-borne diseases, as well as increasing the number of students coming to the school.