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Community Description
Kandieng High School is located in the middle of the village on the riverfront, 12 km away from the provincial capital. The school consists of 5 large buildings, with approximately 1440 students, grades 7-12, and 60 teachers.

The school has a good attendance rate throughout the academic year as well as off season, because students attend summer school.

The school lacks a clean and reliable water source for the students who come to campus each day, the 20 students who live on campus, 6 female bathrooms and 12 on-site food vendors.

Currently, students walk with buckets to a nearby pond to refill the bathrooms daily. The food vendors use the water from the pond, as well, to wash dishes and utensils.

The boys who live on the school premises wash their clothes with pond water, bathe in pond water, and cook with pond water. Due to constant and heavy usage, the pond dries up prior to the dry season.

The school has an underground water pump, but it has been broken since 2003. There is also a 75 meter deep well, but it is dry and empty.

Project Description
This project will connect the village’s main clean water supply, which runs past the school, to 6 outlets on the school premises. The outlets are located around the main buildings of the school, and are all easily accessible to the bathrooms.

Project funds will be used to purchase piping, fittings, and other materials.

The labor for digging, laying pipes and installation will be contributed by a small group of male teachers and students.

Project Impact
1440 students who live both on and off campus, 60 faculty and staff, and various on-site food vendors will benefit from the project. In addition, the water supply will be used by 2 families who live in the area surrounding the school.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Diana Wong

Comments
This project will alleviate the tremendous problem of having to hand-carry water onto the school campus to be used for drinking, cleaning, and hygiene. It provides a source of safe water to replace the water from the pond, which is often polluted or nonexistent.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$50.00

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Dollar Amount Needed
$450.00

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

Community Description
Gome Village is a rural community bordering Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve in the central region of Malawi. The community's main source of income is from the sale of tobacco and soy beans.

There are up to 540 people in Gome Village and 5 nearby villages who do not have reliable access to clean water. The borehole well that is used by the villages has been broken for the past five months.

Many people have been forced to use shallow wells or nearby streams containing water that is often contaminated. Villagers have experienced increased amounts of sickness due to the poor quality of the water.

Project Description
The borehole pipes will be extended from their current depth of 28 meters to reach the water at a depth of 51 meters. The water is of good quality and will be available year-round. In addition, other pump repairs will be done.

Project funding will be used to buy new parts, including seven 4 m PVC Pipes and six Pump Rods, and materials, including cement.

The project is being coordinated by the Gome Borehole Committee.

A government water maintenance worker inspected the borehole, developed the parts list, and will perform the repairs. He will also teach members of the committee to do future repairs.

Project Impact
There are 540 people in six villages who will benefit from this project.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Tomas Pickering

Comments
This is a high-impact low-cost project that will have a definite and meaningful result. The built-in training element ensures sustainability, as there will be people who will be able to make future repairs.

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 Tomas Pickering of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Tomas and/or those of his counterpart PCVs in Malawi.

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

Community Description
Matakossi is located in South East Senegal, in the region of Kedougou, about 37 km west of the city of Kedougou, on the Salemata road.

A traditional subsistence farming Pula-Futa village, the major field crops, and therefore dietary staples, are corn, rice, and groundnut. Dry season gardening is rather difficult and limited due to the fact that the only year-round water sources are by the river (about 2km away) and by the forage (hand-powered water pump).

There are about 500 people living in Matakossi at any given time and about 470 year-round residents. Currently Matakossi has one forage and 6 wells which go dry in the dry season. The primary school serves about 80-100 students each year. There is great interest in improving diet through improved gardening techniques.

Project Description
This project is to construct a cistern at the primary school for water storage, and to run the necessary piping from the water source to cistern and from there to the school garden and the latrine.

The cistern, located between the garden and the latrine, will be made of cinder blocks and cement.

A water intake mechanism, constructed of heavy-duty sheet metal, will be installed at the forage. PVC piping will be run underground, connecting the components.

The water thus provided will be used to irrigate the garden and to fill the reservoir for the hand washing robinet next to the latrine.

Locally led formations for students and community members are being organized to learn and apply gardening techniques such as permagardening and companion planting, while reinforcing responsible water management.

Project Impact
This project will directly affect approximately 100 students and 30 women from the women's group. The entire village will benefit from nutritional betterment.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Frank Guzzardo

Comments
The irrigated garden will provide meaningful lessons to the students and enable much-needed nutritional variety in the Matakossian diet. The handwashing station will encourage proper hygiene, and thereby reduce illness.

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, with the help of friends and family of PCV Frank Guzzardo.

We encourage others to continue to donate using the Donate button below, and we will notify Frank of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Frank 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
Koboye is a 300-person Pulaar village with three distinct quartiers, located on a mountaintop a few kilometers from the Senegal-Guinea border.

There exists a shallow well, about 20 meters deep, toward the eastern side of the central quartier. However, it is dry for about 6 months of the year. Also, the wall surrounding the well is falling in, is unable to keep dirty runoff water from entering and contaminating the well.

The only other water source is an open spring about 1 km from the village (for the western half of the village) that is down a rocky gorge (about 15 meters deep).

Project Description
The project involves improving and deepening the existing well, and digging a new well in one of the other quartiers.

The new well will be central to the eastern quartier, not more than 500 meters from the people who will use it. It will be deep enough to reach the water table, at about 25 meters

The villagers will contribute the food for the workers, the concrete to build the wall around the top, and the raw materials necessary to do so.

Project funds will be used to pay the well digger and help pay for the transport of materials

Project Impact
About 200 people will benefit from the project.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Katherine Crocker

Comments
This project greatly improves the availability of water for the village. Great cost benefit is achieved by first improving the existing well. The new well makes safe water available to a presently unserved part of the village.

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

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