Laundry for Saint Cornelius Mental Health Center (SCMHC)

Location:               Kasaka, Kiqoma district, Tanzania

Project leadtime:   4 months

Requestor:            Majaliwa Stanslaus, director of SCMHC

Description of the project:

• Construction and furnishing of a laundry room, a brick building with concrete floors and with corrugated iron sheet roofing. The laundry room will be equipped with four large concrete sinks, concrete supports with water evacuation for placement of two commercial washing machines and a large table with two chairs for ironing of the laundry as well as storage for dirty and cleaned laundry.
• Construction of a drying place, an open construction on four small concrete pillars and with corrugated iron sheet roofing.
• Purchase and installation of two commercial washing machines

Objectives:

Strong improvement of the personal hygiene of mental health patients and caregivers in SCMHC Kasaka by improved laundry methods for bedding and clothing of patients and different caregivers uniforms, following below steps:

• Collect of dirty laundry in the cupboard in the laundry room.
• Pre-soaking of the dirty laundry in the four sinks within the laundry room.
• Washing in the two washing machines.
• Drying of the cleaned laundry in the covered drying place.
• Ironing of the cleaned and dried laundry.
• Storage of the ironed laundry.

Beneficiaries:

The beneficiaries are the about 300 psychiatric in-patients and the 23 caregivers/staff-members of SCMHC.

Budget:

21.909.620 Tanzania Shillings (+/- 8.765 €)

Risks:

• Interruptions in water provision (solar energy pumps) and electricity (power cuts at Tanzania Electric Supply company = TANSECO): There will be kept enough spare clothes, uniforms and bedding to be able to ensure good hygienic conditions for patients and caregivers at any time
• Damaging of the washing machines by power peaks in the TANESCO electricity grid: There will be installed overvoltage protectors to both washing machines.

Attached documents:

• Introduction letter
• Detailed budget
• Plan

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Follow-up of the project

Date:                Feb 10th 2020
 
Name project: Laundry for Saint Cornelius Mental Health Center
                         (SCMHC)

General status:

After receiving the funds an implementation plan for the project was developed and construction was planned to take 8 weeks. The start was planned for January 20th but had to be delayed with 3 weeks because of heavy rains. Therefor the construction duration was reduced to 5 weeks, to compensate the lost days. Within three weeks since the project start the following works have been completed: Preparation of the foundation, excavation, walling and roofing.

Financial status:

The amount spend so far is 8.004.500 Tshs. This leaves a balance of 13.861.372 Tshs.

Problems/concerns:

Heavy rains at start of the project

Attached documents (pictures, reçu’s,…):

Pictures and first invoices

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Follow-up march 2020

Name project:     Laundry for Saint Cornelius Mental Health Center (SCMHC)

General status:

The project is progressing well.

Progress since last status report:

The work completed after the first report are the ceiling, plastering, door fixing, painting and the tiles. The window fixing, electrical installation and pumbling work is 90% completed.

Financial status:

The amount spent over the last weeks is 4.996.500 Tanzania Shillings and the current balance is 8.864.872 Shillings.

Problems/concerns:

The project is going very well but we had to extend the completion time of the project for one month, because of unavoidable reasons (the supplier had no tiles in stock anymore and I had an urgent family matter so had to travel to Dodoma for one week).

When planning for the project we did not foresee the need for the fence for security, waste systems (septic tank) and the heater for the washing machine. Although, these needs will not hinder the completion of the project.

Attached documents (pictures, reçu’s,…):

Pictures and receipts

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Follow-up may 2020

Date:                     May 25th 2020
 
Name project:       Laundry for Saint Cornelius Mental Health Center

General status:

The construction of the laundry and drying bay is 100% complete.
The remaining work is:

- The construction of the fence
- The purchase of washing machine and other furniture.

Progress since last status report:

The window fixing and plumbing work is complete 100%. Finishing works for both the laundry and drying bay are done.

Financial status:

The amount spent for the door fixing, plumbing, drying bay construction and other general finishing works is 4.874.998 Tanzanian Shillings. The amount spent for supervision, labour and transport costs 6.104.998 Tanzanian Shillings.
The current balance is 2.759.873 Tanzanian Shillings.

Problems/concerns:

The restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic had some negative impacts on the completion of the project (restrictions of people movements and disturbance in the supply chain).

Attached documents (pictures, reçu’s,…):

Pictures

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Follow-up august 2020

Date:                          July 30th 2020
 
Name project:           Laundry for Saint Cornelius Mental Health Centre (SCMHC)

General status:

The construction of the laundry, drying bay and fence is 100% complete and washing machine is installed. I’m looking for the possibilities to purchase the furniture and start the process of recruiting a dhobi.

Progress since last status report:

We have completed the fence and purchased the washing machine. The machine is delivered and is installed by now.

Financial status:

From the remaining Tshs 2.759.873,31 following costs have been taken :
Fence construction and labour: 1.709.999 Tshs
Purchase washing machine and stabilizer: 1.480.000 Tshs
Machine transport cost from Dar es Salaam: 100.000 Tshs
Final balance is -530.125,69 Tshs

Problems/concerns:

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, we had some delays in the project (e.g. delivery of the washing machine and construction material) which lead to higher costs. Therefor we had to raise funds to offset the differences.

Attached documents (pictures, receipts,…):

Pïctures and receipts

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