Self-supporting community- based mitigation program that provides arsenic safe water using modified dugwells along with public education on water related health effects.

Narrative

This site #PW172 Naryan pur of Chakdah block of Nadia district. Chittaranja Sarkar donated the site for the community.

  • Ranajit Bala of Project Well
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    Implementation Status: completed Tue 27 Aug 2013, Over 10 Years ago

    reparing of chackvalve.and good water used for 20fammilics 112people.

  • Impact Assessment (M&E) Phase Project completed on 31 Jul, 2011 Implementation Phase
  • Implementation Phase Project started on 1 Oct, 2010 Preparation Phase

Self-supporting community- based mitigation program that provides arsenic safe water using modified dugwells along with public education on water related health effects.

Narrative

This site #PW172 Naryan pur of Chakdah block of Nadia district. Chittaranja Sarkar donated the site for the community.

Impact

People Getting Safe Drinking Water: 40

Registers will be created as soon as the community starts using the water from this bore-dugwell

Maintenance/Operating Costs Annual, in US$: $40

Creating and measuring long-term impact

Implementer: Project Well & Aqua Welfare Society

Aqua Welfare Society, AWS, is the partner NGO of Project Well. Their office is based in the North 24 Parganas. The 7 honorary board members are located in Kolkata. There were only 5 field workers who were interacting with the villagers and beneficiaries, training the users on maintenance of the dugwells, organizing village meetings and health meetings. This year four more field workers including a management trainee have been contracted due to expansion of the program to other districts like Nadia and Murshidabad. A technical advisor of AWS is based in Kolkata who visits the village occasionally and one awareness programmer who is Aqua Welfare Society, AWS, is the partner NGO of Project Well. in charge of awareness programs in the communities and educational institutions. There is an accountant and also a data entry person on part time basis.

Funding

funded:
$1,160

Plan/Proposal