Rainwater collection and toilets

Location:                         Zone Cibitoke, commune de NTAHANGWA, Burundi

Project leadtime:        6 months

Requestor:       SELEMANI Michel 
                  Association de Secours et d’Assistance aux Femmes et Enfants au Burundi (ASAFEBU)

Description of the project:

The Anania School was destroyed after the crisis in the country.
Thanks to ASAFEBU, the school has been rebuilt, but it is far from finished.
The hygienic conditions for students and teachers are appalling. In terms of toilets, they only have an unsecured open well made by the parents of students.
This situation makes Anania's school a breeding ground for bacteria, partly due to the lack of water. All these circumstances lead to more absenteeism, children's disinterest in education and poor school performance.
The aim of the project is the installation of rainwater harvesting and the construction of toilets.

Objectives:

The aim of the project is to improve the framework and study and working conditions of pupils and teachers and to strengthen the understanding of school hygiene.

Beneficiaries:

585 students of which 262 girls and 323 boys.

Budget: 6.000 €

Risks:

- Sickness absence/dropout of children,
- Risk of disease infection (diarrhea, typhoid, etc.)
- High percentage of illiterates.

Attached documents:

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Follow-up of the project

Date:                          July 14th 2023
 
Name project:           Rainwater collection and toilets

General status:

This project aims to improve hygiene and sanitary conditions at the Anania school in Cibitoke. After all, there were unsecured places under the open sky.
The toilets infected the children, who got diseases because of their dirty hands.
The project encourages mass participation of children.  Especially the young girls, who did not participate in the lessons after their periods due to the lack of sanitary facilities.
The new rainwater tank gives them access to the water they use to wash their hands after their intimate needs, but also to promote cleanliness in general.

Progress since last status report:

After we received the money, the works were started on April 20, '23, starting with mobilizing labor to dig and build.  The building materials we used were bricks, bags of cement and wheelbarrows (sand, gravel, coarse sand for the septic tank and plain sand).  Then also the purchase of rebar, brackets, kilos of binding wire, formwork plates and nails to cover the plate of the septic tank, etc. Following materials were used for the construction of the 5-door toilet block: bricks, bins of sand and gravel, cement bags for the construction and paving of the toilets and plaster inside and outside, half bins of broth sand, ordinary sand, planks for the roof and doors, ordinary nails and plate nails, shafts, sheet steel, water paint and oil paint. Equipment for collecting rainwater was purchased: a water tank, pipes to direct the water to the toilets, sinks, siphons and accessories... Finally, we built a retaining wall for the tank, which required rebar, brackets, boards, etc. Note that we have tiled the entire space between the toilets as there are 3 toilets on one side and 2 on the other.

Financial status:

The funds received amounted to $6,050. This money was spent on all the necessary equipment, a bonus for the SAFEVBU team, monitoring and communication costs, etc. Purchases were made in $ (due to a problem - see below).

Problems/concerns:

When we received the money, we had a problem due to the exchange of our local currency (10,000 and 5,000 Burundian franc notes). At that time, shopkeepers sold their wares only in foreign currency fearing that the local currency would lose its value. The mechanism to deposit these old notes with the bank was difficult because all the banks were overloaded. Given the lack of capacity at the various banks, the government ordered the holders of the old notes to deposit them with the bank in their respective zone.

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