Fee Collection

By A Single Drop Posted on Fri 30 Jul 2010, over 14 years ago

Hi there

Fee collection for boreholes and other public water sources always intrigue me. can you tell me how fees are collected? Do people pay monthly, or by the jerican? is it free for the students? Does anyone get paid for repair, or is the WMC all volunteer?

Thanks! Good luck!
gemma

Fee Collection

By Tanzania Mission to the Poor and Disabled (PADI) Posted on Tue 03 Aug 2010, over 14 years ago

Fee Collection

By Tanzania Mission to the Poor and Disabled (PADI) Posted on Tue 03 Aug 2010, over 14 years ago

Dear Gemma, the project we are planing to do this year is to construct/ drill two bore hole in two government secondary school. The system they use in collecting maintanance fees is by involving all students whereby each students contribute once per year. When they pay school fees the well maintanance fee included. The system is not giving trouble to teachers. If the school fees are not paid the students are not allowed to be at school.It means if he/she pay school fees automatically he/she also pay well Maintanance fee.

The fees is being used to pay for major repair. All minor repair is done by trained WMC who are all volunteers.

Msigwa

Spare Parts

By The Samburu Project Posted on Mon 02 Aug 2010, over 14 years ago

One thing that you might want to consider is developing a plan for where to get parts from. We have done some very similar projects in rural Kenya and have found that if there is not a plan in place to provide parts, local communities often have no idea how to procure them.

Spare Parts

By Tanzania Mission to the Poor and Disabled (PADI) Posted on Tue 03 Aug 2010, over 14 years ago

Dear Kristen I again thanking you for clarifying more. In our case the parts are available from manicipal/regional water offices. So long the two wells are installed in secondary schools, they are able to pay for the costs of those parts. They have a plan to involve all students tocontribute money for maintanance.

Msigwa

Spare Parts

By The Samburu Project Posted on Wed 04 Aug 2010, over 14 years ago

Msigwa,
One more question: when repairs, etc are required, who does the actual work?
Thanks,
Robert

Spare Parts

By Tanzania Mission to the Poor and Disabled (PADI) Posted on Thu 05 Aug 2010, over 14 years ago

Dear Roberts, the actual work is done by municipal/Regional water
Engineers (experts) but the minor maintanance is easily done by the Committee.
Msigwa.

water education

By Pure Water for the World Posted on Thu 29 Jul 2010, over 14 years ago

is there an education program in place for hygeine, sanitation and water?
the community would benefit from a water purification filter that creates safe water from the poluted wells. For an inexpensive solution www.pointonefilter.com

water education

By The Samburu Project Posted on Thu 29 Jul 2010, over 14 years ago

We bring in outside health workers to run extensive hygiene and sanitation workshop (we conduct a maintenance workshops as well) with each community that we install a well in.
Due to the depth of our wells and the area that we are working in, contamination is unlikely. Furthermore, the hygiene and sanitation workshops are meant to prevent community well pollution.

water education

By Tanzania Mission to the Poor and Disabled (PADI) Posted on Tue 03 Aug 2010, over 14 years ago

Dear Kristen thank you for your assistance on clarifying some issues in our project.
Regards

water education

By The Samburu Project Posted on Tue 03 Aug 2010, over 14 years ago

Iskaka,
Sorry about that. We have done several similar projects and when I got the email about Carolyn's comment, I thought it referred to one of our projects. Appears we have similar plans though. At any rate, sorry for the confusion.

water education

By Tanzania Mission to the Poor and Disabled (PADI) Posted on Tue 03 Aug 2010, over 14 years ago

Dear Carolyn, we have aplan to conduct education program for water hygeine,sanitation and water soon after completing borehole construction. The training is planned to involve 20 participants from wells monitoring Committee for one day and the same is going to be done to the whole school community through meeting (as sensitization) which is planned to take one two two hours. Songea Municipal water specialist will be the resource person, we did the same in the past project. Sorry it was not well stated in our proposal.
Msigwa