Senegal

Community Description
Karang Soce is a small sub-village located approximately 2 kilometers west of Karang proper, in the region of Fatick, on the northern border of The Gambia. It has a population of 622.

The local community speaks Wolof, but they are primarily known to speak Mandinka and Seerere. The community consists mainly of grain and fruit farmers who work very hard to provide food for their families, as well as sell a small portion of their harvests to finance their daily needs.

Unsafe water and poor sanitation cause a high incidence of cholera, diarrhea, and other diseases in the community.

Ecole Karang Soce is one of four primary schools in the town of Karang Poste. It consists of 151 students and 7 teachers.

Project Description
This project is to construct two latrines on the school grounds. These latrines will have porcelain Turkish toilets and will share one building with a dividing wall. The building will be built with heavy-duty cement bricks, and will include a metal roof and wooden doors.

Currently, three other toilets and a large septic tank are being built at the school. These additional latrines will utilize the septic tank already under construction.

Project funds will be used to purchase the materials and supplies for the latrines. All labor is being donated by the community.

Project Impact
Approximately 160 students and teachers will be directly affected by this latrine project. In addition, the entire population of 600 people in Karang Soce will benefit from the facility.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Byron Yee

Comments
This project allows us to build on a movement to improve the community and the school that is already underway. The additional sanitary facility builds on that progress, and works to bring the school up to the local education commission’s standards being met by the schools in the surrounding community.

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 Byron Yee of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Byron and/or those of his counterpart PCVs in Senegal.

This project has been finished. To read about the conclusion of the project, CLICK HERE.

Community Description
Bane is a small village located 20 kilometers west of Kaolack, Senegal near the bank of the Saloum River. The population is about one hundred fifty people during the dry season, but grows to three hundred in the rainy season for farming and harvest.

Bane's people make their living through subsistence farming and animal husbandry, relying on their annual harvest of millet, peanuts and corn for most of their food for the year. The village lacks electricity and running water, thus local women rely on numerous trips to nearby wells for cooking, laundry and bathing needs.

Bane also lacks latrines, forcing villagers to relieve themselves in the nearby forest, or more often, behind the fences of their compounds. This creates an environment with a high risk of giardia, amoebic dysentery, amoebic cysts, and cholera outbreaks

Project Description
This project is to build eighteen simple pit latrines in compounds throughout the village.

Each latrine will be constructed by digging a two-meter pit and placing reinforced cement platform on top of it. The platform can be lifted and moved to another pit once the first is filled, so families can continue using the same platform for ten or more years.

Project funding will be used to buy cement, iron, and PVC pipe for ventilation. Each family will provide all labor to construct its own latrine, as well as rocks to mix with the cement to build the platform.

Local masons will help oversee construction and give instruction to ensure the quality of the latrines, and proper latrine use (including hand-washing) will be taught upon completion of the project.

Project Impact
This project will benefit 300 people by giving them access to sanitation facilities.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Natalie Schmidt

Comments
This is a simple solution to a serious sanitation problem in the community. It is well planned and realistic in its goals and expectations. Education and sustainability are built in to ensure that there will be a long-lasting impact in the community.

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 Natalie Schmidt of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Natalie and/or those of her counterpart PCVs in the Senegal.

This project has been finished. To read about the conclusion of the project, CLICK HERE.

Community Description
Boff Poupouye is a small rural community located within the department of Fatick, 110 km east of the capital Dakar. The village consists of roughly 300 people during the dry season and upwards of 400 during the harvesting months.

The community has no electricity and relies on wells and limited spigot availability for both drinking and bathing water. The villagers are subsistence farmers relying on millet and peanuts as their main source of food and minimal income.

In the past community members both old and young were forced to either travel into the "bush" in order to relieve themselves, or simply go in or next to their compound. The latter caused fecal matter to be tracked throughout the living area, thus contributing to the spread of illness and disease through oral-fecal contamination.

A prior Peace Corps latrine project took place during the last dry season in the same village, demonstrating the health and hygiene benefits of latrines and creating a desire for additional latrines for the village.

Project Description
This project consists of the construction of ten simple pit latrines spread throughout the village. Each latrine will consist of a hole in the ground 2 meters deep and 1 meter in diameter, covered with a reinforced cement platform.

The design allows for the moving of the cement platform to a newly dug hole when the pit is full.

Funds will be used to purchase the supplies necessary for construction: cement, iron for reinforcing the cement, wood for the frames, and pipe for ventilation.

The villagers will be providing the labor of digging the holes and building the structures for privacy. They will also provide the sand and rocks to make the cement. Local masons will construct the concrete platforms.

With proper education and care, one cement platform should be able to last upwards of 10-15 years.

Project Impact
150 people will directly benefit from this project.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Grant Rowland

Comments
This project arises out of a community desire to improve public health in the community. It follows up on a prior project which demonstrated the value to be achieved by building latrines in the community.

The project uses appropriate technology for the seasonally variable population, and is built to be sustainable into the future.

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 Grant Rowland of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Grant and/or those of his counterpart PCVs in Senegal.

This project has been finished. To read about the conclusion of the project, CLICK HERE.

Community Description
Laradjie is a small Jaxanke village located 21 km southeast of the regional capital Tambacounda. The village population totals approximately 200 people, comprised of 23% men, 24% women, and 53% children. Most villagers are sustenance farmers, and make a small profit selling various crops and produce.

Many farmers have paired up with SODEFITEX to grow cotton, as well as corn, peanuts, beans, manioc, and millet to sell locally within the Tambacounda market. Inhabitants of Laradjie sometimes travel to nearby villages to help others farm for extra cash.

There are two wells in the village, one on either side. They are over 100 years old, and in a state of disrepair. They are about 20 meters deep and were never lined with cement. This is a problem year-round, but specifically becomes worse in the dry season when the water table drops causing the water to be murky. Also, in the rainy season the runoff from fields can infiltrate directly into the well water due to a lack of a secure lip around the base of the well.

Project Description
This project is to repair and upgrade the two wells in the village by lining each at least 3 meters down with cement. The ground around the wells will be cemented and lips will be secured to prevent runoff from entering the wells.

Project Impact
This project will provide a direct source of water for over 200 villagers.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Erin Malone

Comments
This project provides a simple solution to a serious problem in the community. The remediation will provide a suitable source of water at a very low price for many years into the future.

Dollar Amount of Project
$200.00

Donations Collected to Date
$200.00

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 Erin Malone of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Erin and/or those of her counterpart PCVs in Senegal.

This project has been finished. To read about the conclusion of the project, CLICK HERE.