Water for Healthy Food
200 women producing vegetables and trees and improving nutrition
Status
Needs funding
Focus area
Location
Nambiza, Marerene, Nicane
Monapo District, Mozambique
Improve the availibility of water for productive use in 10 vegetable gardens & tree nurseries @ 20 women enhancing the production capacity leading to better nutrional situation in families of direct beneficiaries. The women will receive a grant of 2 water-points per vegetable/nursery/herbal garden conditioned by their intensive efforts in improving the hygiene and sanitation in their homes with improved latrine, garbage hole, hand-washing, dish-wasking rack, filtered water, separate animals
Target benchmarks
- 20 functioning water systems
- 200 functioning sanitation systems
- 200 functioning hygiene facilities
- 1100 persons with access to improved water for 10 years
- 1100 persons with access to improved sanitation for 10 years
- 200 persons who receive training / education per year
Improved nutritional and health status for 200 families in the rural Northern Mozambique due to stable production of vegetables and establishment of familiy fruit orchards @ 25 trees, secured via improved access to safe water sources supplied with a rope-pump.
30 women capable rope-pump fitting, maintain the water-source and the financial management, 200 women trained in production of nutritious food, conservation of vegetables, promote replications and high hygienic standard in household
Target benchmarks
- 20 functioning water systems
- 200 functioning sanitation systems
- 200 functioning hygiene facilities
- 1100 persons with access to improved water for 10 years
- 1100 persons with access to improved sanitation for 10 years
- 200 persons who receive training / education per year
Goals overview
- 20 water points with rope-pumps
- Water for 10 vegetables gardens and 200 family fruit orchard
- 30 women trained in maintenance of rope-pumps, 200 women in
- Reduction of malnutrition in 200 families with 50%
- 200 households with good hygiene & sanitation
The rope pump is produced in the area and is made with locally available materials. This also makes it easier to secure the maintanance.
The water filters are imported from India and effort is done to let it become a commercial product sold in local as urban shops.
People in the area are willing to put an effort into learning, specially when the benefits are visible, therefore intensive capacity building, hygiene and food safety training is done of 200 women that will carry visible results to the area and become models for others. In order to get the rope-pump, the 200 women will commit themself to follow certain agreed standard in sanitation and hygiene.
The support to establish two water points will increase the area of growing vegetables and planting trees from a neraby water-source, the families can put either money or time aside to introduce basic hyginic standards in their household
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Funding
2009-10-06 Request posted
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