AMREF water & sanitation in Mtwara, Tanzania

Improved health and living conditions in Mtwara, Tanzania

Status

Needs funding

Focus area

Project category

Location

Mtwara
Mtwara, Tanzania

Description
Goals
Sustainability

Mtwara lies in the South-East of Tanzania. It is a poor region where few people have access to drinking water and sanitation. In the rainy season, people get water from the polluted wells in the valley around the villages. In the dry season people sometimes need to walk 8 kilometers to get polluted water from the river.

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Target benchmarks

1 functioning water systems
108 functioning sanitation systems
1272 persons with access to improved water for 1 years
538 persons with access to improved sanitation for 1 years

To provide clean water AMREF is building 51 wells. The water is located deep under the ground, more than 60 meters. Because of this very strong pumps are being built to pump the water to the surface. In Mtwara many of the children don't have a toilet. Around the schools it is often unsanitary, as they are forced to defecate and urinate in the bushes near the school. This causes diseases, that is why AMREF builds toilets.

Target benchmarks

1 functioning water systems
108 functioning sanitation systems
1272 persons with access to improved water for 1 years
538 persons with access to improved sanitation for 1 years

These wells and pumps also need technical maintenance, so for every well 2 people are educated and trained in this aspect. They will then make sure that the wells are being used appropriately, and are fixed if something breaks; for example a leak or a broken tap.

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