HWF has the under listed Millennium Development Goals as the driving force behind each project
Goal 1: Achieve Universal primary education.
Ensure that children everywhere will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling by providing safe and private sanitary facilities, thereby reducing school absenteeism.
- Rainwater harvesting improves school attendance and reduced water carrying burdens especially girls.
- Private toilets, hand wash facilities and water tanks in schools improves health for the children, especially sexually maturing girls in schools.
Goal 2: Promote gender equality and empower women
Ensure girls have the same access to schooling as boys by provision of sanitary towels and training on sexual maturation to adolescent girls in primary schools. This provides privacy and safety to girls, promotes convenience, comfort and social dignity.
- Reduced time and health burdens through rain water harvesting and springs protection leading to more balanced gender roles
Goal 3: Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
To halve the proportion of people earning less than US$ 1 a day by initiating Income Generating Activities (IGAs):
- Initiating women and youth managed water kiosks, public toilets and solid waste and composting yards that contribute to sustainable development.
Goal 4: Ensure environmental sustainability
- To halt the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources and reduce the proportion of people who are unable to access safe drinking water.
- Youth managed modern carwash yards, reduce upstream river pollution and generate income to the youths