Dig Deep

Dig Deep Together, we are determined to ensure every child and their family gain lasting access to clean water, safe sanitation & good hygiene.

Dig Deep is an award-winning international development charity securing clean water, safe sanitation & good hygiene for the 1 million people of Bomet County, Kenya - through planning, projects and partnerships

To find out more, visit www.digdeep.org.uk Dig Deep is an award-winning international development charity securing clean water, safe sanitation & good hygiene for the one million people of

Bomet County, Kenya - through planning, projects and partnerships. Famous for producing Olympian runners and world-class coffee and tea, Bomet is also a place where two out of three people lack clean water, safe sanitation & good hygiene. To change this, we are working hand in hand with local communities, businesses and the Kenyan government to serve Bomet’s one million people – half of whom are children. Through investing in planning, projects and partnerships, we will make this vision a reality by 2035 - saving lives, keeping children in school, and empowering women and girls. To find out more, visit www.digdeep.org.uk

For millions of girls, one biological fact determines whether they go to school this week. It shouldn't.Today is World M...
28/05/2026

For millions of girls, one biological fact determines whether they go to school this week. It shouldn't.

Today is World Menstrual Hygiene Day. In Bomet County, Kenya, the challenge of managing a period safely and with dignity is compounded - by schools not having private toilets, having limited access to clean water, and a persistent gap in information.

At Dig Deep, menstrual hygiene is central to our work in schools - not a footnote.

That is why our team are:
– Delivering hygiene and menstrual health education across all our partner schools
– Supporting government officers to monitor WASH facilities and keep them functioning
– Building school toilets that are genuinely private and safe for girls
– Training community health promoters to continue this work in homes and villages

Every girl deserves to be in school, learning – every single day of the month.

One question added to a routine school visit. That's how you keep 20,000 children's toilets working.Over the last few mo...
22/05/2026

One question added to a routine school visit. That's how you keep 20,000 children's toilets working.

Over the last few months, Dig Deep has worked with Curriculum Support Officers across Sotik Sub-County to embed toilet monitoring into their routine school visits. These are Kenyan government education officials who already visit schools every term. From this month, they are using the digital mWater tool to report on school toilets in real time.

When schools know their toilets are part of the report, they become part of the priority. Maintenance happens. Handwashing stations stay functional. The shift is small, but it's powerful.

Not a one-off project, but a permanent reason for every school to keep its toilets clean.

If this pilot proves what we think it will, the plan is to roll it out across Bomet County - reaching every school student.

Sometimes the most important room in a school isn't the classroom. It's the one nobody wants to talk about.When school t...
13/05/2026

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.

We build schools and call it progress. Then we wonder why girls stop showing up.When a school lacks private, safe toilet...
06/05/2026

We build schools and call it progress. Then we wonder why girls stop showing up.

When a school lacks private, safe toilets - and when girls do not have access to information about managing their periods - the school day stops working for them.

It is not dramatic. It is not always visible. But it is consistent. Missed days. Discomfort. In some cases, girls who stop coming altogether.

Across Bomet County, girls are ambitious, committed and capable. The gap is in the environment around them - the facilities, education and information that should be a given, but too often are not.

This month, ahead of World Menstrual Hygiene Day on 28 May, we are sharing more about how Dig Deep works with our partners to close this gap - through school infrastructure, hygiene education, and training that helps communities sustain the change.

Because every girl deserves to stay in school, every single day of the month.

Most sanitation projects end at the ribbon cutting. The real work starts the day after.Since 2022, every single househol...
29/04/2026

Most sanitation projects end at the ribbon cutting. The real work starts the day after.

Since 2022, every single household across 390 villages in Bomet County has been verified as having a toilet and a place to wash hands. That's a huge achievement - led by the communities themselves.
However, reaching that milestone is only half the story. Sustaining it is the other half.

So far this year, Dig Deep and the Bomet County Department of Health have trained 140 community health promoters to do exactly that - visit households, support families at risk of slipping back, and promote hygiene practices that last.

The training went beyond monitoring. Promoters also learned soap making - both as a hygiene tool and as an income-generating activity to sustain their work in the community long after the programme moves on.
Sustainability is not a buzzword. It is community health promoters making soap, visiting households, and helping families safeguard their own health.

Thank you to the communities leading this work, and to all our supporters who help make it possible.

At Jubilee Amani Primary School, learners from pre-school to Grade 7 spent a morning learning something that could save ...
22/04/2026

At Jubilee Amani Primary School, learners from pre-school to Grade 7 spent a morning learning something that could save their lives.

Our team delivered a hygiene education session - using games, demonstrations and pictorials to teach children how to wash their hands properly, how to make a tippy tap at home, and how diseases spread through water and poor sanitation.

The children were fully engaged. The teachers were, too.

This is WASH in Schools in action. Not just taps and toilets - though those matter enormously - but the knowledge and habits that make a lasting difference to health.

Across Bomet County, we work in 60 schools, reaching over 20,000 children a year with safe sanitation and clean water. Alongside this, we deliver hygiene and menstrual health education to 33,000 children and their 124,000 family members.

Infrastructure without education is only half the job.

The best partnerships don't start with a contract. They start with years of shared work. This month, we signed a 5-year ...
16/04/2026

The best partnerships don't start with a contract. They start with years of shared work. This month, we signed a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding with the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) - one of Kenya's most trusted humanitarian organisations.

This isn't the start of our relationship. It's the formalisation of one that's been quietly delivering for communities across Bomet for years - and it will strengthen our joint work through the Bomet CountyWASH Hub.

At the signing, Dr. Ahmed Idris, Secretary General of the Kenya Red Cross Society, spoke about the global shift towards local partnerships - and noted that Dig Deep aligns with all three of KRCS's key partnership criteria:
-Specialised expertise
-Strong government relationships
-A community-centred approach

Huge thanks to the Kenya Red Cross Society team, the communities of Bomet who continue to shape this work, and the supporters who make it all possible.

This is another step towards our goal of ensuring that all one million people of Bomet County - half of whom are children - get access to clean water, safe sanitation, and good hygiene.

We celebrate the toilet being built. We rarely celebrate the conversation that made a community demand one.In March, Dig...
08/04/2026

We celebrate the toilet being built. We rarely celebrate the conversation that made a community demand one.

In March, Dig Deep (Africa) and the Bomet County Department of Health completed a Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) training in Kapletundo Ward - covering 130 villages with over 90 trained frontline workers. Within days, community triggering sessions had begun.

CLTS is about helping communities see the difference a toilet and a place to wash hands makes to their family's health - and then decide together to make it happen. When communities lead their own change, it lasts.

Since 2022, every single household across 390 villages in three wards has been verified as having a toilet and a place to wash hands.
This is community-led public health. Families taking ownership. Neighbours supporting neighbours. Change that lasts.

Thank you to the communities leading this work, and to all our supporters who help make it possible.

One county plan. One million people. Last month, Kenya's Director of Public Health came to see it working.In Bomet Count...
02/04/2026

One county plan. One million people. Last month, Kenya's Director of Public Health came to see it working.

In Bomet County, waterborne disease remains one of the leading causes of death in children under five. Two in three people still lack clean water, safe sanitation and good hygiene.

The Bomet County WASH Masterplan is guiding the county toward universal access for all one million residents.

In the last few weeks, a national delegation led by the Director of Public Health Dr. Grace Ikahu Muchangi visited Bomet to see this work first-hand - joining the community of Kapkwen for a clean-up campaign and a public health baraza at Itembe Dispensary.

It was a reminder of what change looks like when national government, county leadership and local communities work from the same plan.

Thank you to the people of Kapkwen and to all our supporters who are helping make prevention - not just treatment - a reality.

"We used to spend an hour collecting water. Now it takes five minutes to reach the spring and just one minute to fetch c...
22/03/2026

"We used to spend an hour collecting water. Now it takes five minutes to reach the spring and just one minute to fetch clean water. Cases of typhoid and other waterborne diseases have reduced.""

Those are Wesley's words, from the community of Cheptuiyet in Bomet County, Kenya.

This World Water Day, it's worth sitting with what Wesley is actually describing.

An hour, two or three times a day, carrying water you knew could make your family ill. That was daily life for thousands of families across Bomet.

By working together — the community, our partners, and our generous supporters — Cheptuiyet now has a protected spring with clean water piped across the area. Wesley's family gained hours back in their day, better health, and the freedom to focus on what matters most to them.

Thank you to everyone who made this possible.

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