Start Date: 2008-11-30

Completion Date: 2013-01-30

Technology Used:

Water hand pump are complete water schemes suitable for serving small communities with portable water supplies. Primary schools, Secondary schools, Dispensaries, etc ,which are not 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 litters per hour can meet water needs of people . A good water borehole 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 workload in fetching water from long distances.
These is good potential of potable ground water supplies in Songea District from existing water hand pumps constructed in Songea rural district and from existing surveys. Over 500 water pumps were construction in villages at shallow depth ( with maximum depth of 35 m).The depth of water table is ranging between 15 meters to 25 meters 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 35 m cost slightly over Tsh. 5,000,000 ( equivalent to $ 4,545.45) due to inflation and raising of transportation costs.

In hand pumps constructions we target a borehole yields of not less 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 3 Hand pumps to 3 secondary schools ( Kalembo, Chandarua and Luwawasi Secondary Schools), 1 hand pump in each school. The project will benefit more than 1200 students ( 592 are girls and 608 boys) where Luwawasi Sec. School has 417, Kalembo Sec. School has 505 and 278 from Chandarua Sec. School .The beneficiaries are part of the total population of 37,303 people in three wards where we are going implement the project.

Goals and Objectives:

1. To provide clean and safe drinking water sources to 1,200 students in three
secondary Schools within Songea District by Jan. 2009

2. To minimize infection of common water-borne diseases from 10% of the students at the present to 1%

3.. To minimize distance walked by students to fetch some water from 1-2 km to 100 Meters and time from 30 -60 minutes to 10 minutes by January 2009.

Project Sustainability:.
To make the project sustainable the following actions will be done

? A training session will be conducted to 6 people who are members of WMC on how to manage to perform miner repair , clean, maintain the pump and monitor any problems associated with their functioning. These people, being school community/villagers living in the vicinity of the pump , will be on hand to maintain the wells (two from each hand pump one man and one woman).
? To make the project sustainable PADI will sensitize schools to form Water Maintenance Fund (WMF) which will be formed through their own contribution to ensure smooth maintenance and repair of the pump.
? PADI will make regular monitoring (at least twice per year to see how pump is working).
? Monthly report from the water monitoring committee (WMC) representative who will be attending PADI monthly meeting will help us to know the situation of the pump in each school.
? Well Monitoring Committees (WMC) will be formed in each school consisting of 10 people per pump assigned to properly maintain their pump functioning, managing WMF and daily monitoring of the pump.
Major activities of the project.
i)Mobilizing school community to fully participate in project implementation
In mobilizing the community PADI will conduct meetings to those schools requested water support. During these meetings the community will be explain on how the project will be conducted and other project conditions which include community contribution, formation of WMF and 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
ii)Formation of Wells Monitoring Committees (WMC) which consist of 10 people.
The ten people described in the proposal on a part of community organization will be the school management committees in each school and they will be responsible in hand pump maintenance and repair, day to day care of the pump and managing the ( WMF)
iii)Formation of Water Maintenance Fund ( WMF) which will be formed by the school community
The fund will be contributed by the school communities aiming at supporting them to manage to maintain and repair their pump.
iv) Transportation of building material from Morogoro; This activity will be done soon after receiving fund.
v) Drilling tube well to the depth of 35 Miters with provision for re-drilling and construction of slab and flumes. The work will be done by water technician.
vi) 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.
vii) Conducting one day training to 10 WMC on how to care, maintain and repairing the wells and sanitation and hygiene skills School children from each school. Municipal water engineer will facilitate the training.
viii) Monitoring : Project monitoring is going to be done through participatory way, where PADI project management team including water technician and project coordinator and the Water Monitoring Committees from both three schools will be responsible in monitoring. WMC will be responsible for day to day monitoring of the pump while Project coordinator and water technician will have regular visiting at least twice per year.

Phases:

The project bwill be done in one phase

Community Organization:

Making the project owned by the communities.
1.In project implementation the school community contribute 15% -20% of the project total costs ( usually required to build pump house). A contract to support them is only signed if the community are willing to do such contribution.

2.Wells Monitoring Committees (WMC) formed in each school community always monitor the whole process of well construction to see whether the required procedures followed and building materials assigned at each pump are well used. Monitoring of the pump will be a continuous process even after completing construction.

3.Water Maintenance Fund (WMF) which will be formed through their own contribution to ensure smooth maintenance and repair of the pump.

Government Interaction:

Ancillary activities:

We suggest the school to start / to strengthen health club which will be also responsible in caring for the hand pump and its environment. This will promote closeness and awareness on water issues.In their health clubs sanitation and hygiene skills will be taught.PADI will provide them sanitation and hygiene materials to the clubs and supporting them by giving them experts from Songea Municipality

Other Issues:

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