Self-supporting community- based mitigation program that provides arsenic safe water using modified dugwells along with public education on water related health effects.
Narrative
This is site is for dugwell #PW123 located in the village Noradaha, the _______ Panchayet in Gaighata block of North 24 Parganas district. Madhusudan Mandol donated the site for the community.
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Meera Hira-Smith of Project WellImplementation Status: completed_partial Wed 01 Sep 2010, Over 14 Years ago
Meera Hira-Smith Visit Report
Visited this site with the technical manager, project manager, awareness programmer and the maintenance personal to see the exact situation why three newly constructed bore-dugwells in the same village, Nordaha, are not working. These sites are located in one line along the main pathway of the viallge. And the fourth bore-dugwell that was located a little interior of the village was working fine. The technical manager assessed that the instructions were not followed by the user community that is to pump the well water out after construction for few days. It was not followed as a result the fine sand is still clogging the pores of the bottom 10 feet of the tube that is perforated. An awareness program comprising of user communities of all the three sites will be held on 10th September 2010 where all the above staff and also all the field workers will be present for it would be a learning experience for those who have just joined the organization.
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- Impact Assessment (M&E) Phase Project completed on 31 Jul, 2010 Implementation Phase
- Implementation Phase Project started on 1 Nov, 2009 Preparation Phase
Self-supporting community- based mitigation program that provides arsenic safe water using modified dugwells along with public education on water related health effects.
Narrative
This is site is for dugwell #PW123 located in the village Noradaha, the _______ Panchayet in Gaighata block of North 24 Parganas district. Madhusudan Mandol donated the site for the community.
Other Issues
Unusual and unexpected issues faced during project execution
Excavation of this boredugwell is just completed. Digging and housing is going on and should be complete by June.
Impact
People Getting Safe Drinking Water: 34
Families10 and 34 people. Registers are being created.
Maintenance/Operating Costs Annual, in US$: $40
Creating and measuring long-term impact
Implementer: 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.
Funding
- funded:
- $800
- Final Cost:
- $1,050