Drinking Cups for Drinking Water

Water Projects in Ivory Coast, Kenya, Senegal and South Africa

The twelfth joint season of the "Drinking Cups for Drinking Water" campaign was a success despite the interruptions caused by the Corona pandemic. Soccer fans had the opportunity to donate the deposit on their drinking cups to drinking water projects in Africa at home games of Hannover 96: 26.000 € were collected in the 2021 / 2022 season. Even during the Corona season, when the games are not played for a limited period, numerous fans continue to support the campaign with monetary donations. Now the 2022/23 season marks the thirteenth year.

Clean water for 125,000 people

Since the launch of the initiative in August 2009, a total of 426,180 euros in donations has thus been received by mid-July 2022. 125,000 people in Africa now enjoy clean water close to where they live.

Stefan Hörmann, passionate soccer fan and supervisor of the campaign at GNF, summarizes: "The campaign drinking cups for drinking water is a great success - and only possible thanks to the tireless efforts of our volunteers at the cup stands in the HDI-Arena. Hannover 96 also provides great support every year. For example, we can regularly promote the campaign prominently before home games with interviews, photos and recordings on the stadium advertisements. The fans reward this in turn with their steadily growing cup donations.

Water in villages in South Africa and for students in Malawi

The construction of a widely ramified pump and pipe system means that, for the first time, running, clean water is now available to the households of the 5,000 inhabitants in three villages in the community of Gumbi in South Africa. For further information, please visit our project website.

In Malawi, three schools in the town of Blantyre received groundwater pumps to ensure the supply of fresh water to over 14,600 students and teachers and a further 600 households. For more information, please visit our project website. Since mid-2022, the precious water has been flowing to two other schools for around 5,000 pupils.

In Kenya, villagers benefit from seven built filter systems and reservoirs, and in Senegal, a well garden provides students, teachers and residents with water and home-grown vegetables.

Pumps in the Ivory Coast

In the Ivory Coast, we have now put more than 120 groundwater pumps into operation. With the know-how of our partner organization ADER (Action pour le Developpement et l'Encadrement Rural) we have been repairing wells in villages in the Montagnes district for many years. The decentralized water supply makes daily life easier for the local residents and ensures access to groundwater that is not harmful to health. Until now, women and girls in particular have had to travel long distances to draw water from streams, rivers or water points, which is often contaminated with germs.

In 2019 alone, ADER repaired a total of ten pumps in the communities of Thè, Bielé, Kandopleu, Gbonbelo, Doué and Guéfensso, which now supply 12,660 villagers with fresh groundwater. In Thè, at the beginning of 2019, numerous villagers fell ill due to polluted water and a little girl died. In 2020, three more pumps were repaired in the villages of Gouine, Douholé and Ditomba, providing groundwater for another 4,500 people.

Project measures in Kenya and Senegal

In Kenya, more than 7,200 people benefit from seven filter systems and reservoirs that have been built, in Côte d'Ivoire more than 120 groundwater pumps have been put into operation, and in Senegal a well garden supplies schoolchildren, teachers and local residents with water and home-grown vegetables.