N'Garahun Village - Koya Rural District
Project Snapshot
Country: Sierra Leone
GPS Coordinates:
Latitude 8.335833
Longitude -12.941683
Impact:
Total Served: 200
Status: Completed (?)
Completion Date (or estimate): 12/30/2010
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The team had an opportunity to meet with twenty-eight year old community resident and local nurse Mamenata Dumbuya who stated, "With the stream water, it has some particles in it but not so with the new. The old water caused sickness due to the cover not being closed the right way. With the new cover it will protect people from sickness. The distance to fetch water is much shorter and it will be very easy to access the water with the new hand pump."
During the hygiene education there were sixty-eight adults and twenty-nine children in attendance and the following principal issues were addressed: Disease transmission, Germs, Hand Washing- proper techniques and water saving methods, Healthy Unhealthy Communities, Oral Rehydration Solution, Proper care of the pump, Keeping the water clean, Good-bad hygiene behaviors and Disease Transmission Stories. After the education the team distributed sixtyeight Oral Rehydration Solution spoons to resident families. The team also addressed the community’s practice of open defecation by demonstrating how a fly lands on feces and how it brings feces back to their food. Then they eat not only their own feces but their neighbors as well. The community was appalled by this and said they would immediately put an end to this practice. The team then discussed how to construct a native toilet and shared that it would help stop disease transmission.
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Sponsors
Indianna Eirena's Fundraising Page
Boomer Roland's Fundraising Page
Anthony Ciardullo's Fundraising Page
Richelle Wheeler's Fundraising Page
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.
