School Water and Sanitation

Goals overview

The main goal of this project is to improve the situation of the children who attend the school. To give them clean drinking water and toilets. Other goals are to increase awareness of health and hygiene amongst the children and villagers, and to reduce the number caused by a lack of safe drinking water.

Current status

The children in the village of Sebekoro do not have drinking water or toilets to use during the school day. This poor hygienic situation results in a high rate of illness among the children. They have to stay at home because of diarrhea and dehydration. This makes the children vulnerable for other diseases and also has a negative effect on their ability to do well in school.

Project plan

This project also aims to form:
1 functioning water committee
1 functioning hygiene committee

The project will also result in a reduction of illnesses related to waterborne diseases

The non-profit organization A.C.D. has a lot of experience with a variety of projects in this region. It is very important that all projects are initiated by the beneficiaries themselves. A.C.D helps with organizing specific expertise, planning and writing the project and searching for funds. Both A.C.D and the people from Sebekoro village contribute to the project with time and money.

Two committees are being formed during this project, one for the water well, and one for the toilet block. Each committee consists of representatives from the village (both men and women), representatives of the school board and the children themselves. These committees are responsible for the cleaning and proper maintenance of the facilities.