Report: Arsenic free bore-dugwell (PW124NRDH2) funded by Blue Planet Run Foundation (MSSCT)

Self-supporting community- based mitigation program that provides arsenic safe water using modified dugwells along with public education on water related health effects.

This is site for bore-dugwell #PW124NRDH2 located in the village Noradaha, the _______ Panchayet in Gaighata block of North 24 Parganas district. Shanti Biswas donated the site for the community.

The boring part of the construction is complete. TDigging and housing is pending and will be completed by June. Following which the arsenic test and application of the disinfectant are due. The community will be trained to apply the disinfectant and field workers will visit the bore-dugwell for two years or until the user community feels confident to take the responsibility of the bore-dugwell.

Aqua Welfare Society, AWS, is the partner NGO of Project Well. Their office is based in the North 24 Parganas. The 7 honorary board members are located in Kolkata. There were only 5 field workers who were interacting with the villagers and beneficiaries, training the users on maintenance of the dugwells, organizing village meetings and health meetings. This year four more field workers including a management trainee have been contracted due to expansion of the program to other districts like Nadia and Murshidabad. A technical advisor of AWS is based in Kolkata who visits the village occasionally and one awareness programmer who is in charge of awareness programs in the communities and educational institutions. There is an accountant and also a data entry person on part time basis.