VILLAGE WATER PROJECT

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1 MILLENNIUM CHILD SUPPORT GROUP Save the child, save the world, save the future VILLAGE WATER PROJECT Providing safe potable water for all the rural communities in Ghana Contact Address P.O.Bo UP 928 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi-Ghana West Africa Tel: (233) Website: Contact Person: Godfrey Ato Parker, CEO Introduction

2 MILLENNIUM CHILD SUPPORT GROUP Millennium Child Support Group is a Christian charitable, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the life quality of vulnerable women and children in deprived community by providing access to clean water. The purpose of Millennium Child Support Group is to leverage our God-given talents to improve the lives and living conditions of the rural people in developing countries through water well drilling, Biblical teachings and community development. Millennium Child Support Group does not discriminate in its recipients of services on the basis of a person's race, political orientation, religion, gender, seual orientation, age, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, or mental or physical disability or any other status prohibited by applicable law Project Title: VILLAGE WATER PROJECT Eecutive Summary: Inadequate access to safe drinking water affects the well being of over one billion persons and more than twice that number have no adequate sanitation. Many people get sick regularly and die too younger in the developing world. But improving their health is not only about effective health systems, delivering the right care and medicines at right time. It s also about preventing people getting sick. And that means good drinking water and proper sanitation. Water is one of the essentials of life, a key foundation for human development As a faith based organization, we are called to participate in the mission of God to bring about a new creation where life in abundance is assured to all. It is therefore right to speak out and to act when the life-giving water is pervasively and systematically under threat. This is often the cause of diseases, unnecessary

3 suffering, conflicts, poverty that always claims lives of innocent people especially children under five (5) years. Type of Project: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion. Target Beneficiaries: Women and Children in 3 identified district of 3 communities with a population of about 8,200 under privileged poor Project Duration: 2 months. Total cost of Project: US$ 57,038 or local currency GHC 82,705 Problem Statement The main problem of the project communities is poor health of the people. In the absence of potable water supply and sanitation facilities in the identified project communities, the rate of death associated with the ten most common diseases, which are preventable has increased steadily in the last 5 years. Mortality rate is presently high. Seven 7 out of every Ten 0 deaths result from diseases such as Malaria, Severe Diarrhoea and Upper Respiratory Track infection. The high rate of deaths associated with these preventable diseases is now a major concern to all stakeholders in the District. Poor Health in this contet means; Heaps of refuse seen in project communities, faecal matter of both humans and animals can be seen around, Animals and humans use the same source of water from streams and ponds, there are Malnourished Children seen in all the project communities. Low awareness about these problems, perceptions of the target population about the causes and their effects on the live of the people still remains to be a major problem. Some cultural beliefs in some of the communities have been and continue to be a hindrance to the campaign to provide safe drinking water for the people in these communities. Notable among them is the beliefs that water from streams are thicker and tastier

4 than that from pipe and wells with pumps. Some of the communities also have weird contention that water from streams has carried their ancestors from creation to the present generation and so they are reluctant to depart from them. The following causes and effects were identified after the problem tree analysis with the participation of the project communities. Causes: (a) Low awareness of good hygiene practices (b) Poor Hygiene promotion (c) Inadequate Sanitary inspectors (d) Use of water from steams and pond sheared with animal for domestic use (e) Inadequate Sanitation facilities (f) Limited Mobility for Hygiene Promoters (g) Inadequate planning for Hygiene promotion. (h) Inadequate involvement of Private sector e.g. Partner Organizations. Effects:(a) Poor Health of community(b) Increased morbidity (c) Increased community medical cost (d) Increased water and sanitation related diseases and deaths. (e) High levels of poverty. Brief Description: The proposed project main objective is aimed at supplying the project communities with reliable easily accessible clean water through the construction of hand dug

5 wells, drilling of boreholes with hand pumps for village clinic, school, hospital, community centre and market area. Build places of convenience in the communities, Build institutional latrines for schools to improve sanitation and reduce disease outbreaks in the communities. Our goal is to increase access to potable water and sanitation to 70% of suffering people and to reduce the number of people affected by water related-diseases. Operation Geographical Locations: NYANKPALA, Northern Region, Ghana Populations 2,282 TOLON, Northern Region, Ghana Populations: 8,882 KUKUO, Northern Region, Ghana Populations 6, 24 Community Information The communities are typically rural areas in the northern region of Ghana. The main occupations of the people are subsistence farming and they depend on only seasonal rainfall for their cultivation and engage in other low income activities. The people often eperience shortage of water during the dry seasons and so they depend on unhygienic source of water for cooking and drinking. As a result of drinking contaminated water, many people frequently suffers from number of water-related diseases such as (cholera, typhoid, diarrhea, guinea worms, buruli ulcer, skin reactions, river blindness, etc) This situation eposes inhabitants of these communities to the risk of contracting other water borne diseases. Women and children have to walk three to four kilometers to fetch water from untreated streams, taking those hours away from school, child care, farming and income generating activities. Project Strategy Millennium Child Support Group will pursue the following strategies for the successful planning, implementation and management of safe water and improved sanitation facilities and services in the project communities.

6 There will be community animation/sensitisation in all project communities where safe water and improved sanitation services are to be provided prior to and after provision. Ensure effective participation of all segments of community, especially women and minority groups where relevant, in decision-making relating to safe water and improved sanitation. Ensure full participation of all stakeholders in the provision of goods and services. They will be engaged to use their skills and professional epertise to provide etension services at community level by building the community capacity in operation and maintenance of facilities to be provided. Special focus on women, as users as well as planners, operators and managers of community level systems shall be ensured. Ensure mainstream gender issues in safe water and improved sanitation delivery in the entire project communities. Integrate hygiene promotion (personal hygiene and environmental cleanliness) in safe water and improved sanitation provision. Each Community to show their demand for the improved services will make 5% financial contribution of the capital costs for the service to be provided. Each Community will be responsible to own, manage and maintain the facilities provided to ensure sustainability. Ensure the formation of gender balanced Water and Sanitation Committees (WATSAN) at the community level for the planning, implementation, operation and maintenance of facilities provided. Project Goals and Objectives

7 Short-Term Goal: Is to improve access to potable water and sanitation facilities to identified project communities. Long-Term Goal: Maimize Health benefits of the people and reduce poverty level in the project communities. Target. To form and train 3 WATSAN Committees to operate and maintain both water and toilets in their communities within 2 months. 2. To construct 6 deep boreholes for 3 selected communities within 2 months. (i) village Clinic (ii) Community centre (iii) School compound (iv)township 3. To Build KVIP Toilet of 4-seater capacity for 4 Primary school selected within 2 months. 4. Increase awareness on personal hygiene and environmental cleanliness including HIV/AIDS to the 4,887 people of our project communities within 2 months. Project Epected Results Epected Outcomes are: (a) Improved quality life. (b) Morbidity reduced.

8 (c) Less medical epenses of the people in the project communities. (d) Reduced water and sanitation related diseases. (e) Awareness of good hygiene practices increased. (f) Effective and efficient hygiene promotion adopted. (g) Adequate number of trained hygiene promoters available. (h) Appropriate hygiene promotion materials developed. (i) (j) Adequate number of latrines available for schools and communities use. Adequate source of portable water available to the communities. (k) Poverty level of the people reduced. Project Sustainability The following are measures to be taken to ensure sustainability: WATSAN Committees would be formed in all the beneficiary communities to take absolute responsibility for the facilities to be provided. The same WATSAN Committees would be formed in the schools that would benefit from the institutional Latrines that shall be provided.. Capacity building training would be provided to the WATSAN Committees for proper management of the facilities with Technical Assistance from the DWST and CWSA. 2. Local caretakers from the communities will as well be trained to do routine maintenance on the water facilities to be provided. 3. User fees will be charged and put in separate account for operation and maintenance. This user fees, which could be paid by any of the following; Cocoa Kilo deductions, Monthly or Annual levy, Community fundraising,

9 Pay-as-you-fetch, Donations to community for water and sanitation and Advance payment will be used for water and sanitation activities alone and to run the facilities. 4. Other sources of funding shall vigorously be pursued by Millennium Child Support Group to source funding to continue with the project activities in project communities and other communities in our project are. Project Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting Monitoring and Evaluation has been planned to ensure that activities of the project implementation conform to the project plan. Monitoring and Reporting of project activities shall be carried out once in every three months to obtain relevant information that can be used to assess progress of work for the plan project activities and to enable project management committee and stakeholders involved to take timely decisions to ensure that progress is maintained according to schedule. Evaluation of the project shall take place once in every 6 months to enable all stakeholders and project management committee to determine most especially, whether the epected impacts of implemented activities of the project are being achieved using the indicators developed. The evaluation shall involve the participation of all stakeholders, the project communities, the district assembly and district health directorate. We shall also consider an eternal evaluation from your organization to come and assess the impact of the funds invested in the project. ESTIMATE BUDGET NOTE: This is estimated budget to construct 6 deep boreholes for three (3) communities.

10 3 NYANKPALA Populations 2,282 2 TOLON - Populations: 8,882 Populations 6, 24 Details Budget in Ghana Local Currency Cedi GHC 82,705 = US $ 57,038 Activities Months Person to Carry the Project A ct iv iti es January December E st i m at e d B u d ge t a m o u nt G H C Dissemination of information Team,0 0

11 2 Form WATSAN Committees Resource personnel Bidding for contracts Consultant, Drilling/Constructio n of Wells/ boreholes Selected contractors 39, Supply of hands pumps & installations Selected Contractor 6, Supply of spare parts Selected contracted 5, Train of local mechanics Engineering consultant, workshop for local Volunteers Resource Personnel 5, Monitoring & evaluation Team 4, Reporting Team 53 2 Preventive maintenance Engineering Consultant 4, Hygiene education Resource p Volunteer allowance 2, 00 0

12 4 Insurance Team, Transport & Fuel Team, Administrative cost Team 6, Miscellaneous Team 70 5 TOTAL G H C 82,7 05

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