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Working with Edmonton's Tamaraneh and Sinkunia societies, Change for Children is playing a mentorship role on a project involving the drilling of 10 wells in Sierra Leone. Building on the success of our educational initiatives in the region, we are looking towards providing for the basic needs of a population in desperate need of fresh water. The project also involves local capacity building for water management and reforestation initiatives to preserve the aquifer.
Drilling for Clean Water: Tonkolili, Sierra Leone
PARTNER: Tamaraneh Society
Update from the field: June 2010
This project is still in the planning and design stages as we wait for sufficient funding to begin well drilling. In 2010 the community water committee began its training process and members are learning about how to manage the resource and administer the user fees beneficiaries will be charged in order to provide maintenance for the water system to ensure its sustainability.
Building on the success of our water wells project in Nicaragua,
Change for Children is working with the Tamaraneh Society to raise
funds to drill 5 water wells in the Romano Village region of Sierra
Leone.
The villagers there live a subsistence lifestyle and completed
a water well project in 2007, which has helped reduce water borne
illnesses in the community especially amongst children.
Needs for water in the area have made it necessary to prioritize
the drilling of five more wells which we hope to complete in 2009.
Check our website at www.tamaraneh.org
for recent photos of our work in Romano Village.
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Well Drilling in Sierra Leone 2010
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