Airport Ferry Rd. Well Rehab
Project Snapshot
Country: Sierra Leone
GPS Coordinates:
Latitude 8.538150
Longitude -13.149633
Impact:
Total Served: 600
Status: Completed (?)
Completion Date (or estimate): 05/26/2010
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The community of Lungi, Tardi is located in the Port Loko district, Kaffu Bullom Chiefdom of Sierra Leone. The pump on the well had been spoiled for almost two years. The community had to get their water from a river and this water would cause cholera, dysentery, typhoid and malaria. The well would also go dry in the dry season. The team pulled the old pump out, dug the well down deeper and installed a new Afridev hand pump. This community has a really active youth that helped participate in the project. To see what the well site looked like when the team began to what it looked like upon
completion is just a glimpse of the transformation that is taking place in this community. When the project was complete, the community established a water committee and a point person to be the caretaker of the well.
Testimony from a community member
Howa Kamara, 17 year old homemaker spoke with the team about the water needs. “I feel very fine about this work done on this well and the new hand pump. The water from the waterside (river) is dirty. People wash their clothes there while others bathe and ‘ease’ (toilet) themselves. The water from this well is going to be so fine. Thank you!”
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Country Details
Sierra Leone
- Population: 9.7 Million
- Lacking clean water: 47%
- Below poverty line: 70%
- Climate: Tropical; hot, humid; summer rainy season; winter dry season
- Languages: English, Mende, Temne, Krio
- Ethnic Groups: 20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10%
- Life Expectancy: 48 years
- Infant Mortality Rate: 155 deaths per 1000 live births
Partner Profile
Living Water International
Nearly 20 years ago, we set out to help the church in North America be the hands and feet of Jesus by serving the poorest of the poor. 600 million people in the world live on less than $2 a day. 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water.
For all practical purposes, these statistics refer to the same people; around the world, communities are trapped in debilitating poverty because they constantly suffer from water-related diseases and parasites, and/or because they spend long stretches of their time carrying water over long distances.
In response to this need, we implement participatory, community-based water solutions in developing countries. Since we started, we’ve completed water projects for 7,000 communities in 26 countries.
It all began in 1990, when a group from Houston, Texas traveled to Kenya and saw the desperate need for clean drinking water. They returned to Houston and founded a 501(c)3 non-profit. The fledgling organization equipped and trained a team of Kenyan drillers, and LWI Kenya began operations the next year under the direction of a national board.
That pattern continues today; we train, consult, and equip local people to implement solutions in their own countries.
Remembering the life-changing nature of that first trip in 1990, we also lead hundreds of volunteers on mission trips each year, working with local communities, under the leadership of nationals, to implement water projects. It’s hard to know which lives are changed more—those “serving” or those “being served.”
Our training programs in shallow well drilling, pump repair, and hygiene education have equipped thousands of volunteers and professionals in the basics of integrated water solutions since 1997.
