: GWAKO-Groundwater Abstractions in Kenya Outreach

Community Selection

By A Single Drop Posted on Tue 07 Oct 2008, over 15 years ago

Hi Elizabeth and Lillian

It's so great to learn more about your organization and all your work!

Can you please tell us how you choose which communities you work with? Also, can you tell us how you acquire funding and how you choose which technologies you introduce?

Thanks!
Gemma

Community Selection

By GWAKO-Groundwater Abstractions in Kenya Outreach Posted on Wed 08 Oct 2008, over 15 years ago

GWAKO entry point into a community are organized self help/women groups. These groups are introduced to GWAKO by the areas community development assistant --- who are government officers. Once they have been introduced to us and have come to our office and makes an official applications that details the nature of their Water and Sanitation problem, a team from GWAKO thereafter plan a visit within that community for needs assessment for future intervention.

GWAKO has a team of three persons lead by Benjamin Koyoo (Co founder) that work on fund raising. These people are volunteers and professional in various field. They help write proposals and organize for local fund raising such as water walk that was done last year.

GWAKO started her activities by implementation of community water through hand digging of the shallow wells. This was because the area had soft formations that permitted hand digging. Over the years we came to learn that this methodology was not applicable in all region. To that end GWAKO decided to explore other technology to scale up safe drinking water within other area where hand digging was not possible . In nutshell we look into aspects of rainfall precipitation within a year, soil formation and it's potentiality for ground water and finally other surface water sources for water purification (household treatment)

Community Selection

By GWAKO-Groundwater Abstractions in Kenya Outreach Posted on Wed 08 Oct 2008, over 15 years ago

GWAKO entry point into a community are organized self help/women groups. These groups are introduced to GWAKO by the areas community development assistant --- who are government officers. Once they have been introduced to us and have come to our office and makes an official applications that details the nature of their Water and Sanitation problem, a team from GWAKO thereafter plan a visit within that community for needs assessment for future intervention.

GWAKO has a team of three persons lead by Benjamin Koyoo (Co founder) that work on fund raising. These people are volunteers and professional in various field. They help write proposals and organize for local fund raising such as water walk that was done last year.

GWAKO started her activities by implementation of community water through hand digging of the shallow wells. This was because the area had soft formations that permitted hand digging. Over the years we came to learn that this methodology was not applicable in all region. To that end GWAKO decided to explore other technology to scale up safe drinking water within other area where hand digging was not possible . In nutshell we look into aspects of rainfall precipitation within a year, soil formation and it's potentiality for ground water and finally other surface water sources for water purification (household treatment)