Summary
Construction of a bore hole at Unangwa Community PADI Centre is aiming at providing clean and safe water to 7,358 people (4,300 women, 3,058 men).
Background
Unangwa Community PADI Centre is among different programs formed by PADI aiming at supporting vulnerable groups. The centre has been established at the moment is supporting over 7,000 people from different groups of older people and disabled people including revolving goat scheme( with 2,100 beneficiaries),micro-finance scheme (with 1,300 beneficiaries),Community health Fund support (with 3,000 beneficiaries) and older people Home Basic Careers volunteers (with 958 people).
The services offered by the centre include venue for trainings-entrepreneurship skills training, meetings, seminar-in near feature the centre is going to conduct older people and disabled clinic services. All these services need the availability of clean water, at the moment the centre has tape water which is not supplying enough water according to actual requirement of water due to fact that water supply from the tape is being supplied at interval of every after two to three days per week and some times over three days while the centre need to have daily water supply for drinking, gardening, for toilets and hall sanitation and flower growing/watering. The present source of water at the moment does not suffice the requirement of the centre. In this case their fore request for funding from Blue Planet Network is presented in order to construct a bore hole with a plastic tank with capacity of 5000 liters to minimize the gap as the present source of water is only able to support few activities than the present plan.
Even after the construction of 73 improved traditional water wells and (8) bore holes in the district (to the community and schools) the need to expand the project to other areas is still high (more than 3 requests from community and 2 schools have been received this year) including Unangwa Community PADI Centre.
Major Activities of the Project will include :
i) Mobilizing community to full participate in project implementation.
In mobilizing the community, the project will conduct meeting to the Community of the centre requested water support. During these meetings the community will be explain on how the project will be conducted and other project condition which include community contribution, formation of WMF and WMC. The meetings will help to create awareness and readiness of participating in the project implementation. In this project the communities are required to mobile funds to support electricity bill payments and pump repair. Contract of receiving the support will be signed only if they agree to the conditions including:
ii) Formation of Wells Monitoring Committees (WMC) which consist of 10 people who will be from the village community
and they will be responsible in hand pump maintenance and repair, day to day care of the pump and managing the Water Maintenance Fund
iii) Formation of Water Maintenance Fund (WMF) which will be formed by the community, the fund will be contributed by the communities at support them to manage, to maintain and repair their pump. Also
iv) Purchasing and transportation of building material this activity will be done soon after receiving fund
v) Drilling Tube Well to the Depth of 25 – 40 m.The work will be done by water technician
vi) Conducting one day training to 10 WMC on how to care and maintain the pump and pump house.