Organising and Supervising the Kimilili Clean Water Project
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The work in Kimilili Clean Water Project is as follows:
- Identifying locations of a new water sources, either spring or well (they must serve more than ten families)
- If spring water, reconstruct or reroute water to enable sufficient drainage of water
- Build reservoir
- If well water, drill down to the water source
- Install a water pumping engine
- Install pipes so the water can flow freely
The community is very much willing to provide any kind of labor that will be required. Hopefully, the community will also provide some of materials that are needed and which are locally available. The rest of the materials will have to be procured through funding (see step 1). The expertise is available from the government’s water department-the district water officer. The organization and supervision of the work is done by the Nabuur neigbours.
We are in need of the following help from the Nabuur neighbours, someone to:
It is our hope that if we can new water sources that benefit the Kimilili community as a whole, people from the community will be more willing to help the 250 OVC children in our school who are in need of much spiritual, emotional, and material care.
Please do consider participating with us on this project.
Project: The Kimilili Clean Water Project
Dear Readers of this Project Task,
It looks as though we have started building up a strong group for this project task. Ron has offered to project manager of this project, as well as overall for the Kimilili Village project. Daniel is going to be the organiser locally. Willis has offered to write blog posts. But, we still could use more help is you'd be so kind.
There areas where we are still seeking help are: researching potential organisations or projects (for sources funding, possible types of pumps, needed material); assisting Daniel and Rev. Wasike with supervising the project; making up a project manual to pass on to other communities in the area who are interested in creating such a project; creating a series of presentations (e.g. powerpoint, slideshare, animoto, youtube) that we can use to present the project outward; doing PR (radio and newspapers and newsletters)... as you can see, we are in need of a lot of help.
Maybe there is something in this project you would like to do or reflects your interests or expertise? Please do contact us.
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lilalia
Hello Lia!
Here is a design, construction methodology and bill of materials for Latrine construction as I promised to you a researched copy. I just don't know where to put this topic and its up to you to move where should it be.
If you have further inquiries, please call my attention.
Regards!
Rafael
hallow Rafael
Welcome.The latrine design is wonderful.Thank you for the well researched design.Hope our facilitator will reach you soon.
rev.wasike
hi Rafael
I join the other neighbours to welcome you to Kimilili. thank you so much with providing us with the plan for the latrine. this is very timely since the school which is badly in need of more latrines will be openning in January and therefore we hope to add more latrine as the school opens. thank you for the plan.
kind regards
Daniel
Dear Rafael,
Thank you very much for the plans. I've looked through them and we very much welcome how extensive they are.
As far as I can see, the plans are for a proper ventilation latrine. It seems that the latrine wastes, in most part seep back into the lower soil levels and not into the topsoil. Is that right? This means that the soil around the latrine will in time become richer in time, without dangers of disease being carried to humans and animals through the topsoil.
What happens with the latrine as time passes? Do you uninstall the latrine? Do you just leave the cement blocks in the ground to disintegrate with time? How long is the latrine used?
Thank you very much for all your assistance. We will write you soon, if we have more questions.
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lilalia
Hello Lia and All!
Thank you for the welcome remarks!
Lia, I attached a copy and this might answer your inquiries regarding how maintenance of pit latrine or when its already full. This is a research which we also discussed in Shikarpa village in Nepal and the other one is in India Digambarpur village.
Anyway, there are a number of ways how to empty the pit but I think this procedure in www.lboro.ac.uk is very easy to understand. Here is the link in our nabuur website
http://www.nabuur.com/en/village/digambarpur/project/task/meet-neighbour...
Thank you and regards to all!
Rafael
Dear Rafael,
thank you very much for the attached document. I'll pass it on to Rev. Wasike. He is having to install a new latrine in the next weeks, so your help has been very timely.
Thank you once again.
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lilalia
Community participation is at the heart of the the Kimilili water project philosophy. For a project to be truly successful, communities in this case Kimilili must be viewed and must view themselves as the owners of the project. That’s why we as volunteers are trying to engage this community at every stage and at every level– from project planning, building and financing to ongoing project maintenance.
Once the Kimilili community has been selected i feel that, one of the first project activities is for the community to elect a local water committee. Because women disproportionately bear the burden of collecting water, it’s essential that the committee include female members. The water committees play a critical role in the project’s success. They serve as the liaison between the community and our partner organization, facilitate the hygiene education program, and determine the community work schedule for project construction.
I just felt that maybe its time that we started doing this so that there is the aspect of the community bearing the role of OWNERSHIP and to be GENDER sensitive before we go ahead!Thanx!
Lets hope that we can get a WATER COMMITTEE soon........
Mo!
Dear Moses,
Here here. Your words express my sentiments exactly. We would very much welcome a community water committee. Please talk to Rev. Wasike and Daniel and James about it on Friday's meeting.
bye, lia
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lilalia
Moses,
Once you have worked out how things will work let me know and I will change this Organization Chart to meet your needs.
I thought perhaps two legs, one to provide, service and test the water, and another to look after usage, rationing (perhaps needed in drought?) and requests for new outlets. Whatever you wish can go in the final document.
Ron.
Hallow Moses.
Your comments are very okey and welcomed ,may be what I would like to know from your thoughts is whether you mean coming up with different committee, from the one currently running the entire CBSM project or we form a separate sub committee just for water ,which specifically deals with water development in the community ,I would be interested to learn more from your thoughts tomorrow when we meet at kayole,so that with consensus ,we come up with the committee as we travel to(Kimilili)participate in the opening ceremony of the school on Monday with you .I believe this is best time as many community members will be available at the ceremony and together(I and you) can be able to come up with the right composition of the committee .
Moses,I must also ,appreciate your gender balance suggestion, in the committee/ this a noble thinking as women in our African culture are mandate with the responsibility of water fetching hence their inclusion is necessary for better out come.
Meanwhile remain blessed,as we discuss further by tomorrow morning .
rev wasike
Dear All, the water committee in Kimilili would be an advisory or sub-committee. We will discuss the role and the scope of this committee soon in context to project management and scheduling.
all the best,
Lia
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lilalia
Hi Everyone,
Not sure if this is the best place to put this, but I went through the pile of documents I have on water and sanitation and have this one from CAWST. It is a comprehensive guide on running a water project (albeit the main focus of implementing a project is the biosand filter). However, the beginning of the document covers basic info on water quality, water testing, common diseases and bacteria, ways to improve sanitation and water quality, various methods of cleaning water and so forth. The second part of the manual give detailed information on how to set-up a project. It covers the dissemination model, criteria for a successful water project, key planning concepts, and how to write a funding proposal.
This was put together by specialists and experts in water and sanitation that have implemented (or assisted organizations and communities) implement many projects all over the world.
Barb
Dear Barb,
Thanks for the information. I'll ask James (the civil wat&san engineer) to read the document. It is well possible that we are also looking at a stream, biosand reservoir in Kimilili. We have to wait to see what the the ministry of water researches.
No matter what, I'd like to know if it is possible for us to put up on our website to pass on to other people who are interested. Would that be ok?
Thank you once again.
bye, lia
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lilalia
Hi Lia,
The document is open source so it can be put on your website, passed along, modified and so forth.
Barb