KAMPIMBI SAFE DRINKING WATER PROJECT
JUSTIFICATION
Water is one of the most powerful ways to improve health, hygiene, and well-being of any families need water to survive.Tanzania is among of the less developed countries which is facing with a lot of social and economic problem especially for water infrastructure in their villages. Ndungu is among of the village suffering from lack of enough safe domestic water for uses. Ndungu is located eastern part of Tanzania but its bordered with Mkomazi game reserve which is about 500 kms from Dar-es-salaam the capital and trading centre city of Tanzania. In historically the water infrastructure was constructed in the early of 1960 as an aids from our mother colony (British) and up to now there is no any further improvement of water systems while day to day settlements/families are expanded resulting to drinking water crisis among the different water users although there a plent of water from the Yongoma River.This project of 1960 was initiated to provide services to the people not more than 1000 but per now the settlement are more than 26000 people who depend from this small water reservior which is not enough, resulting to the people to use unsafe water.The Yongoma River(Ndurumo) is about 6km away from their village that is flowing abundantly all-year-round which can be simultaneously tapped to redirect its use to use for domestic uses,improve their economic and living condition.Hence eruption of diseases like dirrhoea,fever ,malaria etc which kills many people especially children and their mother because of lack of clean water to use. The socio-economic life of the people was originally agriculture and local pastoralism . The purpose of this proposal is to help the poor families to get safe drinking water through Construction of Water Pipe Line direct from Yongoma River and Reservoir. Not because there is no enough water from the river but because there is no any further plan to expand the project and its improvements which has touched our organization to help the communities around to reduced if not to finish the problem of drinking water .Financial Aids and human resources required to improve communities with the support they need to attain water at Ndungu village.
To ensuring that every one at Ndungu has clean water in drink would ranks as one of the great achievements of humankind. People are delivering upon this human right would also improve public and drive economic development .To make sure that women ,children and girls are engaged in economic issues than to spend a lot of time in seeking water. And to make that safe water decreases the diseases among the communities. To focusing attention on the importance of water and advocating sustainable management of fresh water resources.
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OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT PROPOSAL
Helping to enhance the environment and biodiversity to improve quality of life.
To enhancing and protecting the natural environment , reducing pollution and preventing habitat loss and degradation.
Supporting a strong and sustainable green economy, resilient to climate change.
To encouraging businesses, people and communities to manage and use natural resources in a sustainable manner and to reduce waste.
To working to ensure that the Tanzania economy is resilient to climate change,To promote of integrated water resources management at different levels within the catchments areas along Yongoma River from Shengena forest reserve.
To work out together with the communities on how to better manage and use the water/training on water safety methods and water-sources maintenance.
To ensure that water management practices. It is by design when this Project is fully operational that it shall create a ripple effect of progress and development among them .
The Project will provide a solution to the Ndungu immemorial problem of having an abundant
potable supply of water in the midst of their community.
The Water Supply Reservoir is supplied with a non-stop flow of water from the “Shengena forest Spring” which now becomes the life line for Ndungu in the community.
This supply of water will guarantee the maintenance and improvement of their health, sanitation,
hygiene, socio-civic, economic and living condition.
The Ndungu especially the school children, will become more aware of their dignity as a people
and will take pride of what, as a community, can do and enhance their life and become productive
members of the society.
PROBLEM STATEMENT.
There is a general water problem in the area.When it rains, all the water in the village runs down
to the river.They drink this water, use it for washing,
cooking bathing, local drinks making like beers ,watering their animals and for irrigation activities.These water sources are therefore, shared by animals and human beings alike.They have a Reservoir tank constructed in the early of 1960 which is not fulfilling their requirement due to the fact that, need is beyond the existing Reservoir tank and the near by villages depend on this tank like Bagamoyo,Misufini,Dimbwi,Kwasoroha-Masai land and Makokane, but water supply for peripheral areas is only available for one or three day per week which affects their daily activities and their health. During the time where water are not found from the tape the always fetch water from the rivers the same applied to communities around the Centre facing a major problem of safe and clean water. Also, the wells are exposed, affording animals the opportunity to pollute the water. Women line up daily very early the morning to fetch water than to engaged in economic activities resulting to poverty among them and poor performance in academics issues for the Children who leave class to fetch water from river and it is always the children that carry the water. This would effectively reduce incidence of waterborne diseases and enable the people to have access to clean water leaving children to go to school and to develop as children.Primary schools, Secondary schools, Dispensaries, etc, which are not covered by other water supplies because of various reasons may suitably be supplied with water from our expecting project.
MAJOR ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT
i) Mobilizing the community to fully participate in project implementation .In mobilizing the community Mohispac Foundation will conduct meeting to the Center and people around the centre requested the support. During these meetings the community will get explanation on how the project will be conducted and other project conditions which include community contribution. The meetings will help to create awareness and readiness of participating in the project implementation.
ii) Formation of Water Maintenance Fund (WMF) which will be formed by the Community. The fund will be contributed by the communities aiming at supporting them to manage in maintaining and repair the pipes and reservoirs.
iii) Transportation of building material from Dar-es-salaam; this activity will be done soon after receiving fund.
iv) The work will be done by water technician/Engineers.
THE IMPACT OF HAVING SAFE DRINKING WATER IS TREMENDOUS
• Lives are saved
• Illnesses are greatly reduced
• Health is dramatically improved
• Economic conditions improve
• Educational opportunities improve.This would effectively reduce incidence of waterborne diseases and enable the people to have access
to clean water leaving children to go to school and to develop as children.
THE EQUIPMENT COMPONENTS
• Stones, bricks, aggregate, sand and other
locally available material not costed
• Installation kit including filter, pipe, pipe fittings
• Foundation materials and installation hardware kit
• Safe water tank and supply tank .
• Bags of cements
• Iron Steels
HEALTH AND SANITATION EDUCATION
A key element in the success of a safe drinking water project is including an educational
component. It is essential to teach users the importance of clean water, how water
becomes contaminated, how people get sick from contaminated water, how safe water
can become re-contaminated, how illness can be prevented through proper sanitation
and hand washing, etc.
Mohispac Foundation will coordinate a comprehensive health education program for the project
recipients (communities) and local health officials. Independent, health-oriented NGOs
may be contracted to perform the work. Community leaders will be involved in the
planning and implementation of the health and sanitation education program.
PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION
The Mohispac Foundation with other experts from the Government will be close with the project in monitoring and evaluation in every month although the organization volunteers will be at the site from the initial point to the project up to the final of the project ,for the final report. The expertise from water department from Same district will be involved in providing training to water committees and technical advices during project implementation .The community will be responsible in day to day project monitoring through water committee in cooperation with Mohispac Foundation leaders, involved in forming Well maintenance Fund.
LOCAL CONTRIBUTION AND SUSTAINABILITY
- This cost excludes the local contribution of materials, labour of setting up and
dismantling site, locating to site with equipment, etc.
- Each household contributes 0.3 US DOLLAR a month for maintenance and
repair. There are 3000 households and this totals up to US $ 10,800 per year.There are deliberate efforts to fight the dependency syndrome. The local leaders help in
community mobilisation, provide security, officiate at various functions and settle
disputes. Community venues like classrooms, Churches, homes and community trees can
be used for meetings and training.
The community will also contribute man power , stones, bricks, aggregate, sand and other
locally available material not costed
PROJECT ACHIEVEMENTS
The project has surveyed and mapped read for implement the project after receiving your aids.And we have succeed to mobilise the communities around the areas of the project to offer their man power and they are ready for that like stones, bricks, aggregate, sand and other so many
locally available material not costed
CONCLUSION
Finally this project need your kindly aids to save most adversely poor farmers and pastoralist at the remoteness areas who are already grappling with unsafely drinking water. More than 10,000 people will benefit, mostly children, die every day because of diseases contracted from
contaminated water. By working together with our Project Proposal, we have the
capability to implement large-scale safe drinking water programs that will immediately
save lives, reduce human suffering at Ndungu and greatly improve the quality of life for those
served most and where the majority live and their neaby villages like Misufini,Dimbwi,Kalemawe,Bagamoyo and Kwamsoroha-Masai land.We are very grateful for your interest in supporting us. We hope that by the end of the project the community would have access to clean and safe water and therefore improve on their health. Any assistance will be gratefully appreciated.
Proposed budget $ 300,000
Project duration 1 year
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