Completed

Community Description
The area was one of the fronts of the civil war in the 1990s, and the town has only existed for about 15 years. The town is growing, with recently paved roads and a new bank building.

Sdao Santepheup High School is the only high school in the district, and has operated for less than 10 years. A new school building was recently built, with funding through an NGO.

Only 3 of 8 bathrooms at the school are presently used, often without water. This has a negative effect on the number of students (especially girls) who attend school and pursue education.

Project Description
This project will connect the school's ponds to the school's bathrooms.

Project funds will be used to purchase the pump and the required PVC pipe.

The labor for digging the trenches, laying the pipe, and installing the pump, will be contributed by the school and the community.

Project Impact
750 students at the school, consisting of 350 girls and 400 boys in grades 7 to 12, plus faculty and staff numbering 20 people, will be the direct beneficiaries.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Bob Miller

Comments
This is a simple and very inexpensive solution to a critical problem facing the school. It is simply a matter of transporting water in the ponds, where it exists, to the school bathroom, where it is urgently needed.

The participation of the community is very high. A small amount of help with the purchase of the materials is all that it will take to carry out this meaningful project.

Dollar Amount of Project
$200.00

Donations Collected to Date
$200.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has 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 Bob Miller of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Bob and/or those of his counterpart PCVs in Cambodia.

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

Community Description
Sokone is a small town located in the region of Fatick and department of Foundiougne, in Senegal, West Africa. Sokone has a population of 16,096; and it is divided primarily amongst Serrers (60%), Wolofs (22%), and Diolas (5%).

The town of Sokone has an active women’s group of 30 women called "CercleTakku Leeguey Diamaguene Sokone" which began in 2007. Since establishment, this group has been undertaking projects involving fruit and vegetable transformation, tie-dying, food security, women’s health and education, Wolof language alphabetization and gardening.

The group of 30 women is organized, with a president (Fama Njeng), vice president (Mama Gaye), and treasurer (Nyappale Cisse). They recently started a gardening project with the hopes of ensuring food security for their community.

Project Description
This project is to dig a well to provide water for the community garden, and potable water for use by the rest of the community. The well will be dug by a local man to a depth of eleven meters to ensure year-round access to water. It will be a simple well, incorporating a rope and pulley to retrieve water.

Project funds will be used to pay for materials, including cement, metal support bars, rope, pulley and bucket. In addition, the funds will pay for the transportation of materials as well as the masonry labor required to build the well.

The community will assume the obligation of maintaining the well upon completion.

Project Impact
This project will provide clean water for 30 members of the women’s group, for irrigation of the community garden. In addition, it will provide potable water for the Diammageune neighborhood of Sokone, which encompasses approximately 1,000 people.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Laura Coberly

Comments
This well will provide food security for the women participating, and will provide drinking water for the surrounding neighborhood. It produces a high impact at an extremely low cost.

Sustainability will be ensured through the control and maintenance of the well by an active community group.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$500.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has been fully funded, through the generosity of Matthew Krzyston, of Delhi, New Your, USA

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

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

Community Description
Baan Nong Hai Village is a small, agricultural community located in Maha Sarakham Province in the Northeastern region of Thailand. The surrounding area is a plain covered with rice fields.

Nearly 90% of the people in the community are rice farmers. Because it is so hot and dry in Baan Nong Hai, farmers only plant rice once a year and rely on other sources of income throughout the year, such as mushroom and tobacco growing.

According to the local government office in Baan Nong Hai, the average income is $1,300 USD per year. While the village is very rural and poor, there is a strong sense of community, with close family relationships and active community groups.

Wat Potaram Pre-School is one of two pre-school centers in the area. The school serves 75 students, ages 3-5, each year, with 5 teachers. Currently there is only one small, old bathroom, in which the students use and bathe in each day.

The pre-school is located on the grounds of Potaram Temple. Religion and Buddhist traditions play a very important role in the lives of the villagers, so this temple and pre-school are frequently used for community events as well as learning.

Project Description
This project is to renovate the bathroom at Wat Potaram Pre-School. The renovation will include a new toilet, water basin for bathing, a separate sink for hand washing, and a place to put soap and sanitizer.

Currently, students use the same basin of water for washing hands, flushing the toilet, and bathing. There is minimal drainage so the floor is very wet and full of water. Conditions adverse to proper hygiene and sanitation will be remediated.

Project Impact
75 children and 5 teachers will directly benefit from the project. In addition, the whole community will benefit during community events.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Heather Chadwick

Comments
A heavily-used bathroom that is lacking facilities and equipment, and is currently unsanitary, will be renovated to serve the school and the community. This is another high-impact, low-cost, project that will serve large numbers of people. It will reduce disease by creating hygienic conditions for years to come.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$500.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has been fully funded through the generosity of Jonathan Kazmierczyk, of Arlington Virginia, USA, and Patricia Chadwick, of Fargo, North Dakota, USA.

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

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