Drilling 1 boreholes for Chandarua, a remote secondary school to make them access to clean and safe water to over 278 students hence serve time used to walk 1 to 2 km fetching water. The only source of water they use is local dug wells which are open a

Narrative

We planned the implementation of the project to start on 30th Nov.2008 and expected to be accomplished on 30th Jan. 2009. The actual situation is that the project started 16th Dec..2008 and accomplished on 15th March 2009. Water technician managed to accomplish the work as we planned but school community have failed to complete pump house in time due to the fact that during the time when the project started, most of the school community were in leave almost up to the end of January 2009 when the school re-opened.

Project Implementation:
The project plan was intended to benefit 278 students but now over 396 people are benefiting from the pump (118 people are the new students-form one enrolled this year, 10 are School staff members).

Activity planned to be done:
Several activities were planned to be done to reach goal. Among those activities included:
•Mobilizing school community
•Forming Well maintenance Fund(WMF)
•Formation of Water Monitoring Committee(WMC)
•Transportation of building material
•Drilling tube well
•Construction of Pump House
•Conducting one day training on how to care, repair and maintain the well and sanitation and hygiene skills to school children
•Project monitoring

Mobilizing school community:
PADI managed to mobilize the head of schools where each of them was given a responsibility of organizing some people who could be responsible to support well technician, monitor by forming WMF and WMC. Basically all of them agreed with the plan and they did so. WMF valuing USD.77.74 and 10 people of WMC has been formed.

Pump parts and other building materials:
All building materials reach at right time soon after receiving funds. This enabled the water technician to manage to install the pump in time and is working properly.

Drilling tube well, construction of slab and flumes:

Drilling tube well, construction of slab and flumes were done in time and successfully. The yield of water in litters per hour is 1120 with depth of 23.75 meters. Further more we took a sample of water to Water Officer Lake Nyasa Basin for Physical and Chemical water Analysis. Report from the Water Officer was as following:
•Ph 6.3
•Turbidity 48.11 N.T.U
•Conductivity at 25 degree centigrade 135.3 us/cm
•Iron 0.13
•Manganese 0.609
•Sulphate 23
I) With the following remarks: ACID WATER BUT SOFTER,
II) With the following recommendation: ANALYSED PARAMETERS WATER IS ACCEPTED FOR DOMESTIC USES. At the moment Students are enjoying safe and clean water 24 hours.

Construction of Pump house:
We planned the pump house to be constructed before 1st February 2009 instead the work has been accomplished on 15th March 2009 due to the fact that, construction of the wells started when most of the school community were on leave from Dec. 2008 to almost at the end of January 2009.For this reason they failed to meet the deadline.

Conducting one day Training:
The one day training on how to care and use the water for drinking and sanitation has been done to over 360 participants (Water Monitoring Committee, students and school staff). 10 Water Monitoring Committee received training for a single day while Students and other community attended one day sensitization meeting on sanitation.

Monitoring:
Project monitoring went well from the beginning to the end of the project by involving PADI Management team in collaboration with Water Monitoring Committee from school Community. Though the Water Monitoring Committee involved few members at the beginning of the work but the work went well.

A Message from the Students:

Chandarua Secondary School,
P.O.BOX.261,
Songea , Ruvuma.
Tanzania,East Africa.
We Chandarua students and our Teachers, we are conveying our sincerely thanks for the assistance of building water pump in our school. For 3 years now since the establishment of our school we have been using local dug well as the only source of drinking water. Your support is ensuring us the following:
a) The walking Distance is minimized as a result the saved time is being used to perform other activities including academic issues.
b) We are now establishing school flower garden around school areas
c) We are sure that from now onwards water borne diseases are no longer a big problem to us.
d) We are now able to maintain our personal sanitation and school surroundings and classrooms.
We value, we honor and we appreciate your support.

Yours truly,
Magdalena Komba
Head Girl