Six Senses

Community Description
Mbour is a city in the Thiès Region of Senegal. It lies on the Petite Côte, approximately eighty kilometers south of Dakar.

The community of Louly Ngogom, located 15 km East of Mbour, on the route nationale, is a Serer village of 500 people.

The village does not have electricity or running water. All water is supplied by four communal wells. The water table is about 10 meters deep.

Main income sources are farming, artisanal work, and government positions. Families live in compounds, having up to 40 people in each.

There is a primary school, a church, a health hut, and a kindergarten.

There are four wells currently supplying Louly Ngogom, located in central areas throughout the village. They provide the water for drinking, cooking, and showering. They were all covered with iron well covers in 2006. However, the covers have all rusted through and are disintegrating, thus contaminating the water.

Two of the covers have been removed entirely, exposing the wells to debris (such as waste, dust, and animals).

Project Description
This project will provide proper cement covers on all the wells throughout the village. The new covers will protect the wells from contamination.

Each cover will have a small opening for water-pulling, thereby protecting the well from exposure from debris.

The project is being led by the Water Sanitation Committee, and will be carried out by local stonemasons.

Project Impact
Over 500 communiy members will benefit from the project.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Sarah Sprague

Comments
This project will provide safe drinking water for the entire community by properly protecting the wells from contamination. For a small amount of money, the existing resources will be upgraded to ensure that proper hygienic standards are met.

Dollar Amount of Project
$300.00

Donations Collected to Date
$300.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has now been fully funded, through the generosity of Six Senses Resorts & Spas as a part of their Clean Water Projects initiative.

We encourage others to continue to donate using the Donate button below, and we will notify Peace Corps Volunteer Sarah Sprague of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Sarah and/or those of her counterpart PCVs in Senegal.

Community Description
The village of Ndungu Kebbeh is located in the district of Jokadu in the North Bank Region of The Gambia.

The project is located in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the village center. Physically it is separated from the larger community by two school properties: the Koranic school and the "English" school.

There are 12 compounds in the area, currently housing about 170 persons. All the compounds are clustered together in an area bordered on one side by the school's grounds and on the other by the millet and groundnut fields.

Currently the people are drawing water from an open well in one of the compounds. They have only infrequent and irregular access to taps when the schools are open.

Project Description
This project is to make water available to the people living in the compounds by running piping from the school water supply to a conveniently accessible location.

The system will begin with piping to a location outside the school fence, with water accessed from a single tap. However, it will be built with expansion in mind, so that when additional funds become available, it can be extended to a distance of 500 meters, with three taps.

The community will provide the labor of digging and laying the pipe.

Project Impact
170 people will benefit from this project.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Suzanne Brewer

Comments
This project will immediately make available a consistent supply of potable water. With extensive community involvement in the planning and implementation, it will be sustainable, and expandable as resources will allow.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$500.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has now been fully funded, through the generosity of Six Senses Resorts & Spas as a part of their Clean Water Projects initiative.

We encourage others to continue to donate using the Donate button below, and we will notify Peace Corps Volunteer Suzanne Brewer of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Suzanne and/or those of her counterpart PCVs in The Gambia.

Community Description
Ban Phrong Village is located in the district of Non Khun in Sisaket Province of Northeastern Thailand.

The village has a community meeting hall, which is often used for a variety of events including health talks, government meetings, meetings to prepare for local festivals, and senior group meetings. Most villagers attend a function at the meeting hall at least monthly.

Currently there are no bathrooms in the meeting hall, and people must use the toilets in the surrounding homes, if available.

Project Description
This project will provide two bathrooms, one for men and one for women, in the community meeting hall.

The project will be carried out under the direction of the Non Kor Sub-District Administration Office.

Local villagers and health volunteers have already completed a plan for creating the bathrooms and will work together on the construction.

Project funds will be used for purchasing materials, as the villagers have agreed to undertake the labor themselves.

Project Impact
There are 429 people in the village that will benefit from the project.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Sarah Brooks

Comments
With the bathrooms installed, community groups, including those groups making local products, will be able to meet and work in a clean and safe environment.

This project follows up on the prior project successfully completed by PCV Sarah Brooks, the Non Khun School Water Project – Thailand. The villagers of Ban Phrong were inspired by that project, and decided start one of their own.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$500.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has now been fully funded, through the generosity of Six Senses Resorts & Spas as a part of their Clean Water Projects initiative.

We encourage others to continue to donate using the Donate button below, and we will notify Peace Corps Volunteer Sarah Brooks of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Sarah and/or those of his counterpart PCVs in Thailand.

Community Description
The village of Bantanding-Tukulor is located in the North Bank near the border with Senegal. It is a farming village with 35 compounds housing about 200 people.

The people of the village grow coos, groundnut, and corn. They also plant cashews and mangoes. They have recently joined a tree planting project in the Jokadu area and have two nurseries for live fence and other species.

The village had two hand pumps, but both are in disrepair. The first is being repaired under the Bantanding-Tukulor Pump #1 Project - The Gambia, undertaken previously.

Regarding Pump #2, the cement cover has been removed, and the pump has been completely dismantled so that the village can draw water by hand.

Project Description
This project is to restore Pump #2 to full operation by making the necessary repairs, and to replace the cement wall around the pump.

Project Impact
This project will benefit the 200 people in the village who rely on this pump.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Suzanne Brewer

Comments
This repair and improvement of the second pump in the village restores reasonable water access to the community. It saves the villagers from having to go to the next town to retrieve water for daily use.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$500.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has now been fully funded, through the generosity of Six Senses Resorts & Spas as a part of their Clean Water Projects initiative.

We encourage others to continue to donate using the Donate button below, and we will notify Peace Corps Volunteer Suzanne Brewer of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Suzanne and/or those of her counterpart PCVs in The Gambia.