TTG Luxury Travel Awards partners with Just a Drop to raise funds for Kenya water project

The international development organisation was born out of World Travel Market in 1998, and works to help the travel industry give back by bringing sustainable safe water, sanitation and hygiene projects to communities around the world.

The work of the charity is focused in Cambodia, India, Kenya, Nicaragua, Uganda and Zambia and implements solutions which best suit the needs of communities, such as rainwater harvesting systems, wells, sand dams, biosand filters, latrines, and sanitation and hygiene training.

Reaching more than 1.9 million people in 32 countries since it began, Just a Drop’s projects have also led to the development of food security, menstrual health and micro-finance programmes, which further support community development and economic growth.

With the support of the TTG Luxury Travel Awards, guests will be able to contribute to a specific project, with Just a Drop working in Kavuvwani Primary School in the arid Kitui County in Kenya, a school attended by 141 girls, 166 boys and 10 teaching staff, which currently has no access to a water source.

Kitui County is subject to severe droughts and communities lack access to water for drinking, growing crops and rearing livestock. The children at the school are forced to trek long distances to fetch water to bring into school; this means they often miss school because the queue for the borehole can take all day, and even if they do make it back in time, they are exhausted and unable to concentrate from the long and arduous work.

“At Just a Drop, we are absolutely delighted to be included in the TTG Luxury Travel Awards this year. This is a chance to celebrate the very best in the travel industry while also giving back to a relevant and important cause,” said founder Fiona Jeffery OBE.

“Kenya is at the heart of luxury safaris and bucket list trips but has also been ravaged by the worst drought in 40 years and building a school water tank will be transformational for the lives of 317 pupils and teachers and for many children in the years to come.”