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Community Description
Mbul Waly is a small village in the Djilor area. It has a total of 124 people living in 10 homesteads with 12 households or families.

There is no electricity or running water in the village, which is located 4 km away from the nearest paved road. The people who live in Mbul Waly are subsistence farmers, growing primarily millet and peanuts.

There is no school in the village. Kids walk to the neighboring village for elementary school through high school.

There are currently no latrines anywhere in the village. This leads to people urinating and defecating around the village, and very unsanitary conditions.

Project Description
This project is to build ten simple pit latrines in the village, which will provide one latrine per household. These latrines consist of a 2 meter hole in the ground of 1 meter in diameter, covered with a reinforced cement platform.

Project funds will be used to purchase the supplies necessary for construction: cement, iron for supporting the cement, wood for the frames, and a pipe for ventilation.

The villagers will be providing the labor of digging the hole and building the platform, as well as providing sand and rocks to mix to make the cement.

The design of these latrines is such that when one pit fills, the cement platform can simply be lifted and moved on top of a newly dug pit. One cement platform should be able to last upwards of 20 years.

Project Impact
This project will serve the entire village of 124 people.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Mary Haviland

Comments
This is a follow-up to the Soukoum Latrine Project – Senegal conducted in a neighboring village by Mary. It exemplifies the Appropriate Projects model of using appropriate technology, and replicating a successful concept.

The access to latrines will improve the sanitary conditions of the village and cut down on both malaria and diarrheal diseases.

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

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

Community Description
The Arkhangai province is located in the central-west region of Mongolia. The population is 89,331. and of this, it is estimated that there are 37,443 children ages 0-18 (42% of the population).

The Department for Children will open a summer camp that will operate June 20 – August 21, 2010. The organization just acquired the camp facilities in 2009 and they require a lot of repair in order to be suitable for children.

One of the things that must to be done to make the camp ready is to construct new latrines (also known as outhouses). When the last owners left the camp facilities five years ago, they left latrines that can no longer be used. Since then, the camp has remained vacant. Not only are the latrines in horrible condition, but they are full.

Project Description
In order to ensure the health of the children, four new latrines will be constructed. The latrines will be built in pairs (one for boys and one for girls), one pair at each end of the camp.

The latrines will continue to be used for many years to come. Even if they become full again, they can be emptied and the structure will remain.

Project Impact
The Department for Children aims to bring 1600 children to this summer camp this year. These latrines will be used by all of these children as well as 10 project staff.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Kara Estep

Comments
This project is important for the province in that it adds sanitation and hygiene to a public service that is being delivered to a large and needy segment of the population. The effect of this small endeavor will be widespread, considering the number of people that pass through this facility each year.

Dollar Amount of Project
$494.86

Donations Collected to Date
$0.00

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Dollar Amount Needed
$494.86

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

Community Description
Kouthia Ba is a primarily Wolof community of about 1,500 people located in the region of Tambacounda, about 30 kilometers north of the road town of Koumpentoum.

In early 2009 Kouthia Ba was established as a Communaute Rural, the community received electricity during the evening hours and within the past month a newly established laterite road extends from Koupentoum, through Kouthia Ba.

This rapid development is leading to new opportunities for many people but the majority of the population subsists primarily on herding and the farming of millet, peanuts, corn, sorghum and other crops during the raining season which then hopefully supports them throughout the year.

The middle school of Kouthia Ba was recently established in 2006 and has been growing quickly, with the sixième class doubling in size to over 60 students at the beginning of this past school year.

Since the start of the middle school there has been no water source at the school. The school has two latrines which are left unused because there is no efficient way to clean them or water to use when going to the bathroom.

The school community has expressed great interest and shown the initial steps in creating school gardens and tree nurseries which can’t be realized without a reliable water source.

Kouthia Ba has a functioning water tower and one of the main pipes passes directly through the middle school compound, making it easy to extend a faucet from the main pipe.

Project Description
This project will consist of the installation of a faucet to provide water for the school. The stem of the faucet will be encased with cement for protection along with a cement platform at the base.

Funds will be used to purchase supplies to construct the faucet, labor to install the faucet, supplies to construct the cement protection and platform, and labor for the mason.

Project Impact
This project with provide a water source to a middle school of over 140 students.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Melissa Hunt

Comments
This is extremely simple and immediate solution to the lack of water, and its attendant hygiene and sanitation problems. It exemplifies the Appropriate Projects model to implement small development projects based on fixing what is broken or adding to existing infrastructure.

Dollar Amount of Project
$140.00

Donations Collected to Date
$140.00

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

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

Community Description
Both of these villages are made up of very rural subsistence farming families.

Mdzelanji is a village near the secondary school where some of the students board and approximately 15 families get their water.

Salcale is also a very rural subsistence farming village, and approximately 12 families use this well.

Three years ago the government had a program to convert open shallow wells to protected shallow wells with hand pumps and laundry stations. Unfortunately the project ran out of funding before these two village wells were completed, although the major part of the work was done and pumps were delivered to the sites.

The district well technician has done an assessment of the two wells. However, the villages did not have the money or technical knowledge to complete the project.

Both wells are 6+ meters deep and have a large quantity of water. At present they are open and water is drawn up by the bucket.

Project Description
This project is to protect and improve two shallow wells.

The communities have agreed to provide bricks, river sand, quarry stones and labor to clean out the wells before they are covered.

The district water technician will oversee the project and supervise the work.

Project Impact
This project will benefit 189 men, women, and children (27 families) in the two villages, plus 75 secondary school boarding students.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Judy Summers

Comments
This project protects the wells from pollution, improves their safety, and makes them more functional. Since a large amount of work has been done and materials are on hand, there is a high impact from a small infusion of money.

Dollar Amount of Project
$240.00

Donations Collected to Date
$240.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has now been fully funded through the generosity of Marjorie Knowles, of Mountain View, CA, USA.

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

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