Drilling 1 boreholes for Luwawasi , a remote secondary school to make them access to clean and safe water to over 607 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

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 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.

Activity planned to be done:
Several activities were planned to be done to reach goal. Among those activities included:
•Mobilizing school community
•Formation of 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.78.74 and 10 people of WMC has been formed.

Pump parts and other building materials:
All building materials reached 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 all done in time and successfully. The yield of water in litters per hour is 1020 with depth of 25 meter. 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 6.4
•Turbidity 48.12 N.T.U
•Conductivity at 25 degree centigrade 135.3 us/cm
•Iron 0.14
•Manganese 0.608
•Sulphate 23
I) With the following remarks: ACID WATER BUT SOFTE
II) With the following recommendation: ANALYSED PARAMETERS WATER IS ACCEPTED FOR DOMESTIC USES

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 600 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:

Luwawasi Secondary School
P.O.BOX. 583,
Songea,Ruvuma
Tanzania,East Africa.

Luwawasi Sec. School is among over 150 Sec. Schools in Ruvuma region and over 25 schools in Songea Municipal Council. Among the critical problems we face especially new school include shortage of Safe and clean water, Luwawasi is included.

For more than 4 years now the problem has been part of our lives. Most of us have been facing problems including long distance walking, suffering from water borne diseases due to the fact that water sources are unsafe for drinking.

We are now getting safe drinking water, cooking, washing fruits, and washing our hands and other sanitary works. Also we walk short distance (from more than 1km to less than 100 meters long). At the same times we plan to use the same pump water to irrigate flowers and trees around our school Compound. In coming 12 months we really think our school surrounds will be better than before.
We finally say thank you BPRF for your appreciable support.

Regards
James M. Komba
Head Prefect