: Water and Sanitation for 2 villages

Applicant	El Porvenir	Plan ID:	4
Status:	approved_accepted	Review Cycle end date:	2006-10-27

Discussion Forum

Project Background??

By Safer Future Youth Development Project Posted on Tue 17 Oct 2006, over 19 years ago

You wrote about your Organisation and not about this specific project...

RE:Project Background?? >

By El Porvenir Posted on Wed 18 Oct 2006, over 19 years ago

You are right! This was my first attempt to post anything on Peerwater and I wrote about the organization, thinking that was the appropriate entry there.
The project is actually 4 projects, one well and one latrine project in each of two small rural villages in Nicaragua. The wells were hand-dug by the villagers, as were the latrine pits. the community constructed the well lining, well ring, skirt, drainage channel, and top, participated in installing the rope pump on top, and fenced the well with barbed wire and living fence posts. The community members lined their latrine pits with concrete block, covered the hole with a precast concrete slab and seat, and built a zinc latrine house with zinc roof and door. The latrines have a vent tube out of the back of the pit to reduce odor.

what do you really want to do?

By Safer Future Youth Development Project Posted on Tue 17 Oct 2006, over 19 years ago

I can only assume, that you want to fix/improve some wells and create/improve some latrines, but how many?
for whom? everybody in the village? every family?

thanks for your work! :)

RE:what do you really want to do? >

By El Porvenir Posted on Wed 18 Oct 2006, over 19 years ago

See above answer. The project in Yuca was a well and 26 latrines, in San Francisco a well and 17 latrines. These projects were solicited and carried out by the communities. The budget includes follow-up reforestation of each local area, and ongoing community health and hygiene education, both carried out by El Porvenir staff.

children per family

By Safer Future Youth Development Project Posted on Tue 17 Oct 2006, over 19 years ago

how do your families look like?
2 children per family with 10 members??
strange figures....

RE:children per family >

By El Porvenir Posted on Wed 18 Oct 2006, over 19 years ago

I am not sure what figures you are looking at. The four projects (well and latrines in each village) serve a total of 43 families, in which there are 271 people. This is 6.3 persons per family.

maintenance cost?

By Project Well Posted on Tue 17 Oct 2006, over 19 years ago

The maintenance in the first two years may be low that may increase later, isn't annual average maintenance cost of $3 a bit too little?

RE:maintenance cost? >

By El Porvenir Posted on Wed 18 Oct 2006, over 19 years ago

This figure was a generalization to cover four projects. The costs of maintaining a rope pump are very low, and the figure of $3 is the cost of a new rope. If the pump needed a new rope every year that would be the cost. Other possible maintenance costs include repairing the handle or any metal part of the rope pump which might break, a welding job, also about $2 or $3 at the welder in town (the villagers remove the pump and bring it into town on horseback or in an oxcart). Latrine maintenace consists of cleaning the floor slab and seat with soap and water, throwing ashes from their cookfire down into the hole periodically, and therefore there is no calculable cost for latrine maintenance.

Cost of system?

By East Meets West Foundation Posted on Wed 18 Oct 2006, over 19 years ago

I can' t open the budget file (it might be my internet connection here in Vietnam) so forgive me if this is answered in the budget detail. But the cost of the system seems quite high per family or per beneficiary, especially given the technology. If my figures are correct, it comes out to around $300 per family, or about five times the cost of a full-on piped water system in Indonesia, for example. What costs so much?

RE:Cost of system? >

By El Porvenir Posted on Wed 18 Oct 2006, over 19 years ago

Hello, sorry you can't open the budget, if you could you would see that it is for $11,237.68 and not $50,000. The budget covers two communities, a well and latrines in each, for a total cost per person of $21.53 for water or $30.43 for sanitation. (Water projects serve 139 persons, latrine projects serve 271, including the 139 plus other sectors of these communities which have a potable water source already.
The $50,000 budget was uploaded in error and I can't get rid of the title, but when opened it is in fact the $11,237 budget. Sorry about technical problem.

Application Summary

Applicant	:	El Porvenir
Status	:	approved_accepted
Country	:	NICARAGUA Map

Funding

Amount Funded	:	$11,237
Funded By:-
Blue Planet Network	:	$11,237
Funds Used	:	$11,237
Funds Available	:	$0

Projects Summary of Application

Number of Projects	:	1
Overall Start Date	:	TODO!
Overall Completion Date	:	TODO!
Date of Last Update	:	2010-08-20