St. Bonaventure School, Mulajji Village, Uganda (Africa)

Summary

This borehole project with serve a rural Uganda school, St. Bonaventure, where about half of the children are orphaned. The parish community visiting on Sundays, teachers, staff and families will also benefit from the borehole on school grounds.A water co

Background

Currently, students use over 1.5 hours round-trip to the closest borehole. It is many times dried up and they must walk another hour round-trip to another public borehole. Waiting in lines to collect dirty water occurs frequently. We visited for 5 weeks July 2011 to design the after committee with the school community (students, teachers, staff, priests, and parents) and secure sanitation and hygiene classes monthly (ongoing) for the committee to then train the school monthly about the safe water chain and other water concerns. There was a site visit done by an engineer who located the place where the borehole will be dug-this took an entire day.

Location

Mulajji, Luweero District, Uganda

Attachments

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Beneficiary counts

Rajesh Shah of Peer Water Exchange

Hi Erin, Please update the beneficiary counts to reflect a more correct picture of the impact. 'Number of People Getting Safe Drinking Water' is for those who get a full supply of water for their daily drinking and cooking needs. That would be for those who live in the school. School kids who just come to school on school days and...

Hi Erin,

Please update the beneficiary counts to reflect a more correct picture of the impact.

'Number of People Getting Safe Drinking Water' is for those who get a full supply of water for their daily drinking and cooking needs. That would be for those who live in the school.

School kids who just come to school on school days and don't full daily supply nor year round should only be added in the School category.

Those who get marginal benefits like water on Sundays or knowledge or exposure are in the 'Number of People Receiving Other Benefits'.

Thanks,
Rajesh
- Erin Huber of Drink Local. Drink Tap.
  
  Hi Rajesh, Will do-thanks! Erin
  
  Hi Rajesh,
  Will do-thanks!
  
  Erin
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implementer info

Gemma Bulos of Global Women's Water Initiative

Hi there Can you give us more info about the implementers? Thanks! Gemma

Hi there

Can you give us more info about the implementers?

Thanks!
Gemma
- Mark Steele of Blue Planet Network
  
  Hi Erin, Since you entered the draft of this application 6 months ago, can you update all peers on the work that has already been done. I think this will help explain more about the implementers and the drilling process. I think there will be a lot for others to learn from your experience of putting together a very grass-roots local imple...
  
  Hi Erin,
  Since you entered the draft of this application 6 months ago, can you update all peers on the work that has already been done. I think this will help explain more about the implementers and the drilling process. I think there will be a lot for others to learn from your experience of putting together a very grass-roots local implementation team, almost entirely from within the community.
  - Erin Huber of Drink Local. Drink Tap.
    
    Hi Gemma and Mark, This project came about when I was speaking in a local Cleveland school about water, I saw letters written on the wall in another language, asked the teacher (who is from Uganda) about them, and she said she visited Uganda a few years ago and visited this school (St Bonaventure) full of many orphaned kids. She kept th...
    
    Hi Gemma and Mark,
    
    This project came about when I was speaking in a local Cleveland school about water, I saw letters written on the wall in another language, asked the teacher (who is from Uganda) about them, and she said she visited Uganda a few years ago and visited this school (St Bonaventure) full of many orphaned kids. She kept the mailing address really thinking about how sad their situation was off the grid in Mullajji Village. One day, she had her students write letters to the kids in Uganda and they wrote back telling students about not having shoes, food, books, clothes, water....I heard water, got mad, and started designing a project the next day. I started skyping with Africare in East Africa and others, starting to realize no one wanted to fund this small project. This made me even more upset since these children are not just another metric-they matter.
    
    Teddy, the local teacher, gave me the email to her niece who works in Wobulenzi Town Council, Uganda. She hires, and filters out contractors for the local government and works in water, hygiene and sanitation as most of her job. So, we connected, she agreed to donate some of her services to better her own country, and we began developing the budget after her visit to the school. We negotiated budgets at a distance, she located reliable contractors and engineers, and we had a budget in place before my first trip in 2011.
    
    In 2011, I flew to Uganda with a photographer, filmmaker, myself and brought the local schoolteacher who gave us the connection-we looked at this as the start to a grassroots story for a documentary and the time where we could start the water team with the school/community, have our site visit so we could best decide, with the community, what the appropriate plan should be to bring water to the school (borehole, rain collection, etc.) We also filmed throughout East Africa in the Kibera Slum-Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar.
    
    After that trip, we were able to come back, create an unfinished 26 min movie to help fund raise and create awareness about water access issues in East Africa compared to the Great Lakes Region in the US. We even had a gallery show to benefit the kids and privately screen the film. Additional fundraising has occured through direct individuals, happy hour events, and the school children in the US that go through our Wavemaker Program. Last gaps and extras were filled in by the good ol' plastic credit card and a nice $10,000 donation from a water foundation- we were their first project and they gained naming rights to the borehole.
    
    It took one year for us to get back to Africa ready to implement the project Phase 2 at St Bonaventure of drilling, start discussing Phase 3 with the water team, train the water committee (a joint effort between us and our local Ugandan project manager) and start scoping our next project at an AIDS orphanage. We are still designing a tap system for Phase 3 and an irrigation and shallow well project for the AIDS orphanage. We focus on safe water ACCESS.
    
    Does this help?
    
    Thanks for your question!
    
    Erin
    - Gemma Bulos of Global Women's Water Initiative
      
      Thanks Erin.Very helpful. Do you have future plans for additional WASH projects?
      
      Thanks Erin.Very helpful. Do you have future plans for additional WASH projects?
      - Erin Huber of Drink Local. Drink Tap.
        
        Hi Gemma, Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in t...
        
        Hi Gemma,
        Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in town by maximizing their farm land and also intend to see about a shallow well on-site so the students are not walking for water, can wash properly, etc. An agreement we intend to have with the school is to shift money saved from food expenses and buy a sustainable supply of soap for hygiene purposes on site.
        
        At the same time, we are designing Phase 3 for St Bonaventure Primary school which will be a 3 tap system- pumping water into holding tanks to gravity feed into 3 taps at the schools. Taps will be located by the cooking/ pit latrine area, the school buildings, and the dorms. The borehole we drilled could potentially serve the entire Luweero District (100,000 people), so we want to maximize the water access for the students before we move on.
        
        Thanks Gemma! Enjoy your day!
    - Erin Huber of Drink Local. Drink Tap.
      
      Hi Gemma, Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in t...
      
      Hi Gemma,
      Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in town by maximizing their farm land and also intend to see about a shallow well on-site so the students are not walking for water, can wash properly, etc. An agreement we intend to have with the school is to shift money saved from food expenses and buy a sustainable supply of soap for hygiene purposes on site.
      
      At the same time, we are designing Phase 3 for St Bonaventure Primary school which will be a 3 tap system- pumping water into holding tanks to gravity feed into 3 taps at the schools. Taps will be located by the cooking/ pit latrine area, the school buildings, and the dorms. The borehole we drilled could potentially serve the entire Luweero District (100,000 people), so we want to maximize the water access for the students before we move on.
      
      Thanks Gemma! Enjoy your day!
  - Gemma Bulos of Global Women's Water Initiative
    
    Thanks Erin.Very helpful. Do you have future plans for additional WASH projects?
    
    Thanks Erin.Very helpful. Do you have future plans for additional WASH projects?
    - Erin Huber of Drink Local. Drink Tap.
      
      Hi Gemma, Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in t...
      
      Hi Gemma,
      Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in town by maximizing their farm land and also intend to see about a shallow well on-site so the students are not walking for water, can wash properly, etc. An agreement we intend to have with the school is to shift money saved from food expenses and buy a sustainable supply of soap for hygiene purposes on site.
      
      At the same time, we are designing Phase 3 for St Bonaventure Primary school which will be a 3 tap system- pumping water into holding tanks to gravity feed into 3 taps at the schools. Taps will be located by the cooking/ pit latrine area, the school buildings, and the dorms. The borehole we drilled could potentially serve the entire Luweero District (100,000 people), so we want to maximize the water access for the students before we move on.
      
      Thanks Gemma! Enjoy your day!
  - Erin Huber of Drink Local. Drink Tap.
    
    Hi Gemma, Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in t...
    
    Hi Gemma,
    Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in town by maximizing their farm land and also intend to see about a shallow well on-site so the students are not walking for water, can wash properly, etc. An agreement we intend to have with the school is to shift money saved from food expenses and buy a sustainable supply of soap for hygiene purposes on site.
    
    At the same time, we are designing Phase 3 for St Bonaventure Primary school which will be a 3 tap system- pumping water into holding tanks to gravity feed into 3 taps at the schools. Taps will be located by the cooking/ pit latrine area, the school buildings, and the dorms. The borehole we drilled could potentially serve the entire Luweero District (100,000 people), so we want to maximize the water access for the students before we move on.
    
    Thanks Gemma! Enjoy your day!
- Erin Huber of Drink Local. Drink Tap.
  
  Hi Gemma and Mark, This project came about when I was speaking in a local Cleveland school about water, I saw letters written on the wall in another language, asked the teacher (who is from Uganda) about them, and she said she visited Uganda a few years ago and visited this school (St Bonaventure) full of many orphaned kids. She kept th...
  
  Hi Gemma and Mark,
  
  This project came about when I was speaking in a local Cleveland school about water, I saw letters written on the wall in another language, asked the teacher (who is from Uganda) about them, and she said she visited Uganda a few years ago and visited this school (St Bonaventure) full of many orphaned kids. She kept the mailing address really thinking about how sad their situation was off the grid in Mullajji Village. One day, she had her students write letters to the kids in Uganda and they wrote back telling students about not having shoes, food, books, clothes, water....I heard water, got mad, and started designing a project the next day. I started skyping with Africare in East Africa and others, starting to realize no one wanted to fund this small project. This made me even more upset since these children are not just another metric-they matter.
  
  Teddy, the local teacher, gave me the email to her niece who works in Wobulenzi Town Council, Uganda. She hires, and filters out contractors for the local government and works in water, hygiene and sanitation as most of her job. So, we connected, she agreed to donate some of her services to better her own country, and we began developing the budget after her visit to the school. We negotiated budgets at a distance, she located reliable contractors and engineers, and we had a budget in place before my first trip in 2011.
  
  In 2011, I flew to Uganda with a photographer, filmmaker, myself and brought the local schoolteacher who gave us the connection-we looked at this as the start to a grassroots story for a documentary and the time where we could start the water team with the school/community, have our site visit so we could best decide, with the community, what the appropriate plan should be to bring water to the school (borehole, rain collection, etc.) We also filmed throughout East Africa in the Kibera Slum-Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar.
  
  After that trip, we were able to come back, create an unfinished 26 min movie to help fund raise and create awareness about water access issues in East Africa compared to the Great Lakes Region in the US. We even had a gallery show to benefit the kids and privately screen the film. Additional fundraising has occured through direct individuals, happy hour events, and the school children in the US that go through our Wavemaker Program. Last gaps and extras were filled in by the good ol' plastic credit card and a nice $10,000 donation from a water foundation- we were their first project and they gained naming rights to the borehole.
  
  It took one year for us to get back to Africa ready to implement the project Phase 2 at St Bonaventure of drilling, start discussing Phase 3 with the water team, train the water committee (a joint effort between us and our local Ugandan project manager) and start scoping our next project at an AIDS orphanage. We are still designing a tap system for Phase 3 and an irrigation and shallow well project for the AIDS orphanage. We focus on safe water ACCESS.
  
  Does this help?
  
  Thanks for your question!
  
  Erin
  - Gemma Bulos of Global Women's Water Initiative
    
    Thanks Erin.Very helpful. Do you have future plans for additional WASH projects?
    
    Thanks Erin.Very helpful. Do you have future plans for additional WASH projects?
    - Erin Huber of Drink Local. Drink Tap.
      
      Hi Gemma, Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in t...
      
      Hi Gemma,
      Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in town by maximizing their farm land and also intend to see about a shallow well on-site so the students are not walking for water, can wash properly, etc. An agreement we intend to have with the school is to shift money saved from food expenses and buy a sustainable supply of soap for hygiene purposes on site.
      
      At the same time, we are designing Phase 3 for St Bonaventure Primary school which will be a 3 tap system- pumping water into holding tanks to gravity feed into 3 taps at the schools. Taps will be located by the cooking/ pit latrine area, the school buildings, and the dorms. The borehole we drilled could potentially serve the entire Luweero District (100,000 people), so we want to maximize the water access for the students before we move on.
      
      Thanks Gemma! Enjoy your day!
  - Erin Huber of Drink Local. Drink Tap.
    
    Hi Gemma, Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in t...
    
    Hi Gemma,
    Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in town by maximizing their farm land and also intend to see about a shallow well on-site so the students are not walking for water, can wash properly, etc. An agreement we intend to have with the school is to shift money saved from food expenses and buy a sustainable supply of soap for hygiene purposes on site.
    
    At the same time, we are designing Phase 3 for St Bonaventure Primary school which will be a 3 tap system- pumping water into holding tanks to gravity feed into 3 taps at the schools. Taps will be located by the cooking/ pit latrine area, the school buildings, and the dorms. The borehole we drilled could potentially serve the entire Luweero District (100,000 people), so we want to maximize the water access for the students before we move on.
    
    Thanks Gemma! Enjoy your day!
- Gemma Bulos of Global Women's Water Initiative
  
  Thanks Erin.Very helpful. Do you have future plans for additional WASH projects?
  
  Thanks Erin.Very helpful. Do you have future plans for additional WASH projects?
  - Erin Huber of Drink Local. Drink Tap.
    
    Hi Gemma, Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in t...
    
    Hi Gemma,
    Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in town by maximizing their farm land and also intend to see about a shallow well on-site so the students are not walking for water, can wash properly, etc. An agreement we intend to have with the school is to shift money saved from food expenses and buy a sustainable supply of soap for hygiene purposes on site.
    
    At the same time, we are designing Phase 3 for St Bonaventure Primary school which will be a 3 tap system- pumping water into holding tanks to gravity feed into 3 taps at the schools. Taps will be located by the cooking/ pit latrine area, the school buildings, and the dorms. The borehole we drilled could potentially serve the entire Luweero District (100,000 people), so we want to maximize the water access for the students before we move on.
    
    Thanks Gemma! Enjoy your day!
- Erin Huber of Drink Local. Drink Tap.
  
  Hi Gemma, Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in t...
  
  Hi Gemma,
  Yes, we do. While in Uganda this year (June/July 2012), I traveled to Masindi to visit an AIDS orphanage there and discuss their water needs. We are proposing two projects there. We are waiting for a budget to negotiate from my contractor there for an irrigation project for the orphan farm so they can minimize food expenses in town by maximizing their farm land and also intend to see about a shallow well on-site so the students are not walking for water, can wash properly, etc. An agreement we intend to have with the school is to shift money saved from food expenses and buy a sustainable supply of soap for hygiene purposes on site.
  
  At the same time, we are designing Phase 3 for St Bonaventure Primary school which will be a 3 tap system- pumping water into holding tanks to gravity feed into 3 taps at the schools. Taps will be located by the cooking/ pit latrine area, the school buildings, and the dorms. The borehole we drilled could potentially serve the entire Luweero District (100,000 people), so we want to maximize the water access for the students before we move on.
  
  Thanks Gemma! Enjoy your day!

Name	Status	Completion Date	Final Cost
St. Bonaventure School, Mulajji Village, Uganda (Africa)	completed	Jul 2012	36,700

Plan Amount:	36,700
Amount Funded:	10,000
Funded by:
Schools for Water	10,000
Community Contribution:	6,700

plan 401St. Bonaventure School, Mulajji Village, Uganda (Africa)

by Drink Local. Drink Tap. in Uganda

Status: Plan accepted

Peer Review

Summary

Background

Location

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Focus

People Getting Safe Drinking Water: 100

School Children Getting Water: 700

People Getting Sanitation: 1,000

People Getting Other Benefits: 200

Start Date: 2012-06-04

Completion Date: 2012-07-10

Technology Used:

Phases:

Community Organization:

Government Interaction:

Ancillary activities:

Other Issues:

Maintenance Revenue:

Maintenance Cost: $300

Metrics:

Cost: $36,700

Co Funding Amount: $20,000

Community Contribution Amount: $6,700

Fund Requested: $10,000

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