Clean water is only half of what WASH means. The other half is safe sanitation, and in the schools of Palma District that means proper toilet blocks that give children, and especially girls, a reason to stay in class. As part of its wider water and sanitation work, ALPS Resilience has built separate, durable latrine blocks at a school in the district, each with its own superstructure and drainage, and placed within easy reach of the classrooms. It is unglamorous infrastructur

In places as remote and hard to reach as northern Cabo Delgado, how work gets done matters as much as what gets built. ALPS Resilience keeps as much of that work, and as much of its cost, in the communities and provinces where we operate. ALPS uses three different drilling rigs, chosen by borehole depth and ground conditions, from a light rig for shallower wells to a heavy tracked machine for the deepest boreholes, together with a high pressure compressor to prepare and devel

Working in northern Cabo Delgado means keeping a secure base close to the communities we serve. This year ALPS Resilience completed its own operational compound in Palma: a walled, gated yard with secure storage for materials, plant and vehicles, and space to prepare and stage works. For years, programmes in the region have carried the cost of renting yards and compounds, an expense that ultimately falls to the funders. A permanent ALPS base replaces that recurring rent with

Water is where recovery often begins, but it has never been the whole of what ALPS Resilience does. Across Cabo Delgado, and through years that rarely made it onto this website, our teams have built and rebuilt the everyday places communities depend on. This year, working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), that has meant a new community centre in Mocimboa da Praia and, in Muxara, a public space with an all weather sports field, its concrete court complet

Across Palma District in Cabo Delgado, the water keeps coming. Working with an energy sector client and with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), ALPS Resilience has delivered 22 solar powered water towers and a wider network of fountains and hand pumps that now reaches more than 100,000 people, with over 30,000 on continuous daily supply. The towers pump, store and distribute water without relying on the district's stretched electricity grid or costly fuel, so

100,000+ people reached | 22 solar water towers | 30,000+ on continuous supply ALPS Resilience water programme, Palma District, Cabo Delgado, 2022 to 2026, delivered with an energy sector client Before ALPS began work in Palma District, some households walked 600 to 1,000 metres for water. That is roughly six or seven football pitches laid end to end, twice a day, often to a source of doubtful quality. Cabo Delgado's coast has plenty of communities like this: too spread out f