Summary

Construction of one borehole for Nazareth Nursery School aiming at providing clean and safe water to 100 children, 740 of Matogoro primary school, 460 students of Mazoezi secondary school, 1200 teachers College students and 300 community around school.

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Background

Nazareth nursery school is among Songea municipal educational institutions facing a critical water problem. the school has three sources of water at the moment which includes local water dug well, river and tape water.
though there is tape water, is not reliable due to the fact that during dry season from July to December there happens cut off of water tape by the authority due to insufficeint water in the source, a situation which faces the water authority to arrange a timetable whereby the school gets tape water once or twice per week. the only remaining option is the use of local dug water well and river nearby the school.

However, local dug well and river water is not safe at all since the same sources are used for washing clothes and bathing within, it is a common practice that often leaves many wells contaminated. Also, the wells are exposed, affording animals the opportunity to pollute the water.

The washing of soiled clothes and bathing, along with exposure to animals clearly compromises the effectiveness of these wells as safe sources of drinking water. This problem is further compounded in the rainy season by soil run off that can swamp some of the wells in dirt and soil. This renders the effected wells completely unusable.

Students and women fetching water are often forced to check multiple wells before finding one that has not been affected by run off, it is particularly troubling to students and women, who have more limited time due to having several responsibilities including academic studies for students

Use of these wells for drinking water, which is often not boiled (due to the luck cheaply available fuels) , has led to occurrence of the water borne diseases like diarrhea, intestinal parasite (such as worms), and bilharzias.
Water hand pump are complete water schemes suitable for serving small communities with portable water supplies. Nursery Schools, teachers College, Primary schools, secondary schools, dispensaries, etc, which are covered by other water supplies because of various reasons may suitably be supplied with water from a hand pump.
A water borehole carrying a water hand pump with a standard yield 800 liters per hour can meet water needs of people. A good water bore hole equipped with hand pump can supply over 1000 liters per hour of safe water to isolated communities and thus reduce mostly women’s and students work load in fetching water from long distances.
This is good potential of portable ground water supplies in Songea district from existing water hand pump constructed in Songea Rural District and from existing surveys. Over 530 water pumps were constructed in villages and schools at shallow depth (with maximum depth of 35m). The depth of water table is ranging between 15 m to 25 m depth. There are both hygienic and convenient model to operate. SWN 80 and SWN 81 model pump set are locally manufactured in Tanzania. A pump set complete with 4”PVC casings Up to a depth of 35m cost slightly about $ 8,501.79due to inflation and raising of transportation costs.

In hand pump construction we target a bore hole yields of not les than 800 liters per hour at shallow depths suitable to service our beneficiaries, presently most of sub – Urban secondary schools are not covered by other public water supplies, there fore, the project is going to provide 1 Hand pump for Nazareth Nursery school which will make a total of 10 bore holes and 74 improved water wells.
Even after the construction of 74 improved traditional water wells and (9) bore holes in the district (to the community and schools) the need to expand the project to other areas especially in schools and community is still higher (more than 6 requests from schools and 5 villages have been received by our office)

Major Activities of the Project

1. Mobilizing school community to full participate in project implementation
In mobilizing the community PADI will conduct meeting to the school requested water support. During these meetings the community will be told on how the project will be conducted and other project condition which include community contribution, formation of water maintenance fund ( WMF) and Wells Monitoring Committees (WMC). The meetings will help to create awareness and readiness of participating in the project implementation. In this project the school communities are required to construct pump house as their contribution. Contract of receiving the support will only signed only if they agree to construct the pump house as soon as the pump has been installed.
2. Formation of Wells Monitoring Committees (WMC) which consist of 10 people
The 10 people described in the proposal on a part of community organization will be the school management committee and they will be responsible in hand pump maintenance and repair, day to day care of the pump and managing the (WMF)
3. Formation of Water Maintenance Fund (WMF) formed by the school community.
4. The fund will be contributed by the school communities which will support them to manage, to maintain and repair the pump.
5. Transportation of building material from Morogoro; this activity will be done soon after receiving fund, the Contractor will be responsible on this.
6. Drilling Tube Well to the Depth of 25 – 35 m with provision for re-drilling and construction of slab and flumes. The work will be done by water technician
7. Construction of pump house: Construction of pump house will be done by the school communities as their contribution to the project. Construction will be done soon after completing pump installation.
8. Conducting one day training to 10 WMC on how to care and maintain the pump
9. Project monitoring and evaluation

Experience relating to the water project:
PADI has been implementing this kind of water project for more than 10 years, beginning in 2003. The first implementation of the project was done in Mletele ward at Liwumbu B street from June to August 2003, where (7) improved local wells were built funded by Peace Corps Tanzania supervised by Mr. Tim Hogan.
The second implementation of the project took place from September to November 2003, where PADI received funds from professors Miller and Rulfs of the USA and constructed 4 improved local wells.
The third project implementation took place from October 2005 to December 2005, funded by Help Age International, which enabled PADI to build 8 improved local water wells.
The fourth implementation took place from July – August 2007, funded by Run For Africa, the funding enabled to construct 13 improved traditional water wells and 1 bore hole.
The fifth project implementation took place from November 2007 to January 2008 where 7 improved traditional water wells were built, funded by Help Age International

The sixth water project implementation took place from September 2008 where 34 improved traditional water wells in Mshangano ward were built for the community and 3 bore hole were constructed in three secondary schools funded by Blue Planet Network –BPN
The seventh water project implementation took place in 2009 /2010 where two secondary schools (Londoni and Zimanimoto) benefited from the project; each school got 1 bore hole funded by BPN
Lastly, 3 boreholes were constructed by 2010 to 2012 in two secondary schools and one orphanage centre. The project is now benefiting over 17,000 people.

Location

Matogoro, SONGEA, Tanzania

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