Clean Drinking Water for Five Moroccan Villages

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Summary

This project is bringing safe drinking water and improved sanitation to over 1,600 people in five of Morocco's most remote rural villages, and reducing high infant mortality rates in the process. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Access to potable water is one of the most serious problems affecting communities in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. There is a 19% infant mortality rate in this particular region, which is 4 times the national average, directly linked to unsafe drinking water. Women and girls spend many hours procuring water that is non-potable. This project will reduce infant mortality rates, reduce illnesses among the general population, and improve the lives of women and girls.

Activities

This project will construct piped potable water systems for five villages and at the same time raise institutional capcaities. Gravity flow water systems will deliver drinking water directly from mountain springs to reservoirs above villages.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $1,609
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $23,391
Total Funding Goal: $25,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will serve 1,600 people. Benefits of this project include reducing infant mortality rates, improving public health conditions, and transfering skills at the grassroots level through using local materials and building techniques.

Project Message

This project will not only save lives and reduce human suffering, but will also empower the beneficiaries because they determined and will mange this initiative.
- Yossef Ben-Meir, President of HAF, RPCV Morocco 1993-1995

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Kate McLetchie,
Country Director
Park West Station
PO Box 21081
New York, NY 10025
United States
(646) 688-2946
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

High Atlas Foundation Logo High Atlas Foundation
Park West Station, PO Box 21081
New York, NY 10025
United States
(646) 688-2946
http://www.highatlasfoundation.org

Learn more about High Atlas Foundation and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Morocco and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Morocco, read the Human Development Report on Morocco or the Wikipedia entry for Morocco.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 05, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 08, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

July Update

By Kate McLetchie - Country Director, August 05, 2008 06:54 PM

During the months of August and September, HAF is organizing meetings with the five communities benefitting from this GlobalGiving project. During these meetings we will collect important baseline information (i.e., infant mortality rates, amount of time currently spent procuring water, etc.) and also work with the partnering associations to create an action plan for project implementation.

As soon as we raise $5,000 we will be able to implement the first potable water system with one village. We hope this can happen later this fall!

We will post photos and another update in September.

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