Bumia Primary School Water Project

Project Snapshot

Country: Kenya

GPS Coordinates:
  Latitude 0.287902
  Longitude 34.469057

Impact:
  Total Served: 900

Status:  Completed (What's This?)

Completion Date (or estimate): 08/23/2012

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This project is part of Bridge Water Project's program in Western Kenya. What follows is direct from them edited for clarity:

PROPOSED PROJECT

Bumia Primary School is a day mixed primary school offering primary education as from nursery to standard eight. During the year 1987 Kenya Finland Company (KEFINCO) dug a well for the school and community. The well was cased by concrete casings of 1 metre diameter form bottom to the surface, covered by concrete slab and a NIRA pump was installed and served for quite a long time. It eventually got spoilt and due to lack of spare parts it became of no use and it became difficult for the pupils to draw water from the well despite the fact that the well has plenty of water.  

CURRENT WATER SOURCE

The current water source is an unprotected stream 1km away from the school. Pupils have to cross the road and walk throughout sugarcane plantations whereas the quality of water is not good. It recorded a turbidity value of 80 which is below the required standard.

POPULATION

The school has a population of 847 pupils, 22 teachers and 3 non teaching staff who are direct beneficiaries of this water supply.

SANITATION AND HYGIENE

The sanitation and hygiene status of the school is poor since classrooms and toilets are only washed on Fridays. Also there are no hand washing points for both teachers and students.   

PROJECT BENEFICIARIES

The Bumia Primary school pupils, teachers and the community around the school will be the beneficiaries. 

ASSESSING THE NEED

There’s need to rehabilitate the Bumia Primary school well by installing the new pump so as to stop pupils from crossing the road which might be dangerous sometimes, also to uphold the security of the girl child. It is not safe for young girls to walk through sugarcane plantations while looking for water. Rehabilitating the well will enable the school and the entire community to continue enjoying the quality water from the well for the improvement of their health.

 WATER COMMITTEE

The school has School Infrastructure Committee (SIC) which will be strengthened by BWP staff during community education so as understand the better ways of managing their water supply for sustainability.

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Recent Project Updates

08/23/2012: Bumia School Well Rehabilitation complete!

Excellent news coming from Bumia, where project staff report that the school staff and students have worked really hard with Bridge Water Project staff to get this project done, and that now water is flowing and serving the people. The site has been handed back to the school, and we look forward to hearing news from them when staff visit in the coming months. 

08/15/2012: Community Education Underway At Bumia

Bridge Water Project are in the middle of their community hygiene and sanitation program with the staff and students at Bumia. It is vital that key hygiene messages are worked through prior to the hardware phase, which will take place in the coming weeks. They are making good progress.