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INTRODUCTION
As an initiative of Water
Charity, we do small but critical water and sanitation projects. Each one is a solution to a problem, costs no more than $500, and uses appropriate technology. We start them at once and complete them very quickly.
We partner with Peace Corps Volunteers serving throughout the world, who identify, implement, manage, and evaluate the projects. They work in concert with NGOs and governmental agencies near where they are stationed.
Each project has a high impact, resulting in clean water and effective sanitation for individuals, families, and communities. We are flexible, and can react to emergencies.
We offer you, individuals and organizations alike, the opportunity to participate in our work, and fund these projects, in whole or in part.
However, we don't wait for donations to come in. We pre-fund these projects IMMEDIATELY!
We like simplicity, so that’s all there is to it. 
ADOPT A PROJECT
If you would like to participate in the Appropriate Projects initiative, we invite your involvement.
Click on the PROJECTS tab and find a project you like. Then, we encourage you to fund it in full. In that way, you will be able to follow the project through, from start to finish, and gain the satisfaction that you have taken a meaningful step toward reducing death and disease.
If you are unable to fund an entire project, donations in any amount are accepted.
The Donate button below each project description is coded so that clicking on that button indicates to us which project you wish to support.
PROJECT SUBMISSION If you are a Peace Corps Volunteer and have a small water or sanitation project that needs funding and can be done at once, click the SUBMIT tab to read our simple guidelines and make your submission. We encourage and welcome follow-up projects.
We now
accept applications from Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) and
Peace Corps Response Volunteers (PCRVs) !
Here is
our first RPCV project (Appropriate Projects).
Here is our first
PCRV project (Water Charity).
Dioulafondu School Well Project - Senegal
LocationDioulafondu, Kedougou, Senegal
Community Description
Dioulafondu is a medium-sized village of roughly 800 people in the far south east of Senegal. It is located 50 kilometers northeast of the regional capital of Kedougou, two kilometers off of the new national route to Mali, in the arrondissement of Bembou in the Kedougou region.
The village has an elementary school with two completed concrete classrooms, a classroom currently under construction but still being used, and one bamboo shade structure for the youngest class. The school has two UNICEF-built latrines, but no potable water source nearby.
Located on the edge of Dioulafondu and one kilometer from the nearest source of potable water, the students at the village elementary school have no easy access to water during the school day. Several buckets of water are pulled and carried to school each morning for washing the blackboards but the amount is insufficient for use in handwashing and drinking.
A school garden was started in cooperation with the school director to teach the basics of gardening and nutrition.
Project Description
This project is to build a covered, cement-lined well in the school, and will provide daily access to drinking water.
It will also provide water for irrigation of the school garden during the hot season. The vegetables grown will contribute to the daily school lunch and thus work to improve nutrition among the students.
In addition, handwashing stations outside of the latrines will be implemented in order to promote better hygiene.
The labor for digging the well will be provided for by the village.
Project funds will be used to construct a well cover and install a simple hand pump that will be connected to a small raised reservoir, reducing the effort required to pull water and ensuring a constant supply when needed.
Project Impact
There are currently 133 students and 4 teachers at the Dioulafondu elementary school who will be directly affected by the project by receiving easy access to potable water. The entire village will be indirectly benefited by the increased garden productivity that will allow students to sell surplus vegetables in the village in order to aid future school projects and well maintenance.
Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Kellen Eilerts
Comments
The new water supply will supply water for the students to drink, for sanitation, and for irrigation of the garden. This will enable better hygiene practices and improved nutrition for the students.
This is a terrific project, in which a very motivated community is providing a major portion of the construction costs of the project. This level of involvement ensures the sustainability of the project.
Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00
Donations Collected to Date
$0.00
ADOPT THIS PROJECT BY CONTRIBUTING THE DOLLAR AMOUNT NEEDED BELOW
Donations of any amount will be appreciated. The full amount will give you "naming rights", if that is something you would like.
Any contributions in excess of the Dollar Amount of Project will be allocated to other projects directed by this PCV and/or projects of other PCVs in this country.
Dollar Amount Needed
$500.00
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