Clean Water, Healthy Communities, Stronger Future.
VivaDrops partners with rural and peri-urban communities to build safe water points, dignified sanitation and hygiene habits that last long after the project team leaves.
Who We Are
VivaDrops is a youth-led social enterprise developing climate resilient drinking water solutions for underserved communities in Zimbabwe.
Every project begins with a community assembly, not a drill rig.
Local technicians are trained and paid to service each water point.
Meet Our Founder
Mercy is a Zimbabwean-born youth social entrepreneur and the Founder & Project Lead of VivaDrops.
Passionate about water security, climate resilience, community health and inclusive development, she founded VivaDrops as a youth-led initiative developing climate-resilient drinking-water solutions for underserved communities in Zimbabwe.
Mercy's interest in water security is rooted in her experience growing up in rural Zimbabwe, where access to safe and reliable water remains a daily challenge for many communities. Through VivaDrops she is building decentralised community water systems that combine rainwater harvesting, borehole backup, appropriate water treatment, storage and solar-powered infrastructure.
As Founder & Project Lead, Mercy leads project development, community engagement, partnerships, pilot implementation and strategic development — building water solutions that communities can operate, maintain and eventually replicate.
Work with Mercy and the teamCredentials
beVisioneers Fellow and Kectil International Youth Leadership Program participant/alumna
Professional training in WASH, WASH systems strengthening, borehole drilling, planning and contracting, and sustainable water management
Climate and sustainability learning, including professional development through UNICEF
Our Programs
Clean water without sanitation and hygiene training does not protect a community. We deliver all three together, then hand the keys to a trained local committee.
Boreholes, protected springs and solar-powered pumps sized to the real daily demand of the community they serve.
Support this programmeVentilated pit latrines, school blocks and safe sludge management designed together with local masons.
Support this programmeHandwashing stations, school clubs and household visits that turn new infrastructure into daily habits.
Support this programmeTraining, spare-part funds and mobile payment systems so each community can run and repair its own water point.
Support this programmeWe are at the start of our work and would rather measure it honestly than dress it up. Our first pilot is being co-designed, co-managed and co-owned with the community it serves, and delivered in partnership with The Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care and ZINWA.
Starting point to test the system, measure water quality and reliability, understand community needs and build a model that can be sustainably replicated
Targeted volume of rainwater to be harvested and treated during the pilot system
Community members trained to run daily operations and share in every decision
Targeted reduction in household water-related costs once the system is running
From the first community meeting to three years of aftercare, every project follows the same four-step rhythm so each system is built to be owned, run and repaired locally.
Six weeks of household surveys, water testing and community meetings before any design work begins.
Local masons, drillers and technicians do the work, with our engineers supervising quality at every stage.
A nine-member water committee learns bookkeeping, chlorination, pump maintenance and tariff collection.
Quarterly monitoring, spare-parts support and refresher training until the system stands on its own.
Our Impact
Our Phase II grant-funded solar pumping installation, commissioned in October 2024 with a 1.2 kWp array feeding a protected community storage tank.
A 10,000-litre tank and pump house built with local masons, fenced for safety and maintained by a trained village water committee.
Community Voices
VivaDrops belongs to the communities it serves. These are unfiltered reflections from the people we build alongside, on how we listen, deliver and stay.
VivaDrops did not arrive with a finished plan. They sat with our families, tested our water and asked what we actually needed. Now we have a committee that runs the water point ourselves, and someone is trained to fix the pump when it needs it.
Adionah Musekiwa
Community Health Worker
Harare, Zimbabwe
What stood out was the honesty. They told us the pilot would take time, they measured every step, and they kept coming back after the cameras left. As a mother, that is the kind of partner I trust with my children's health and our family's water.
Thelma Maynote
Stay-at-home Mum
Bindura, Mashonaland Central
Our Global Goals
We measure our work against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Goal 6 — clean water and sanitation for all — is the centre of everything we do, and the water we build pulls more goals forward with it.
Our entire mission: safe water, dignified sanitation and hygiene education for communities that live without them.
Core focusSafe water and handwashing cut diarrhoeal disease, still one of the biggest killers of young children.
School water points and handwashing stations keep children, especially girls, in class instead of fetching water.
Solar pumping and protected sources build water systems that withstand drought and a changing climate.
Get Involved
Whether you want to fund a borehole, volunteer your engineering or public health skills, or partner on a district-wide programme, tell us a little about yourself our team replies within two working days.
