Clean Water and Sanitation Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations.
Millions of people living in rural and urban Africa at large rely on water wells or boreholes for their daily water needs. The general objective of this project is to provide fifty boreholes to schools, hospitals, Orphanage homes, and deprived communities in Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Togo, Nigeria, Niger and Benin with safe drinking water. This project will help to enhance the lives of the people living in these areas, thus uplifting their standards of living through pure, dignified, and safe drinking water.
The intention of this project is to accomplish the digging of fifty hand-dug well and a jack pump attached to each of the boreholes to serve 1, 500 vulnerable families in each location within Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Togo, Nigeria, Niger and Benin, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Togo, Nigeria, Niger and Benin. Furthermore, the project will help the beneficiaries of these communities in the following ways:
- Increased accessibility of safe and adequate water supply within their communities
- Availability of water for an irrigation system to sustain Agricultural activities.
- Reduction of time consumed in fetching water.
- Provision of sufficient water for livestock.
In addition to the above, the project intends to help in saving the time spent by most of the schools’ going children, young women and girls of their day collecting water.
This time can be better spent on activities such as household work, school and working on farms to supplement their daily avenues of income. According to surveys done, the borehole will have a depth of approximately 30 metres, however, our priority is to have the borehole dug first as it will serve more beneficiaries within these communities. This is because the borehole can produce more water for the beneficiaries.
The process of digging boreholes will be as follows. First off, the site will be identified after the geologist report is done. Then excavation of the soil will be done up to 30 meters. The construction of the inner wall of the well then is done by four men taking alternate shifts. Two inside the well and two ferrying the sock and soil out of the hole. A pump will then be laid inside the well to facilitate efficient water fetching. The services of a proper engineer will not be required as this is a task normally done by manual laborers. The borehole’s location has not been identified yet. This will be done during the preliminary construction
