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Self-supporting community- based mitigation program that provides arsenic safe water using modified dugwells along with public education on water related health effects. 2009-11-01
2010-07-31
$800
$1,127
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According to the register record of July 2011 the total consumers=59; Families=14; Male=34, Female=25, children <5 = 2 and students =21.
Now 18 families that is 75 people are obtianing water from this source Now 17 families are using this source. Male=30, Female=27 and children=13. Old:10 families using this water for drinking & cooking purpose. Registers will be created as soon as the community starts using the water from this borewell. 0
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Drinking Water - Community
Hygiene Education
Construction of this borewell # PW132JHDN1 is complete. It is located in the village Goalbathan, the Jhowdanga Panchayet in Gaighata block of North 24 Parganas district. Madhusudan Mandol donated this site for the community. $10
Water will be collected to test for arsenic concentration. Theoline will also be applied. The community will be trained to apply the disinfectant and field workers will visit the borewell for two years or until the user community feels confident to take the responsibility of thier own water source. Project Well & Aqua Welfare Society
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. |
| Project ID | : | 240 |
| Application ID | : | 218 |
| Owner | : | Project Well |
| Status | : | Complete - Success, Over budget |
| Country | : | India |
| Last Report Update |
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24 Aug, 2011 (6 months ago) |
| Last Progress/ Status Report |
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23 Jun, 2011 (8 months ago) |
By Meera Hira-Smith of Project Well on Thu, 23 Jun, 2011
