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Clean Drinking Water for Five Moroccan Villages

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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. read updates from the field

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$15 - Provides safe drinking water for one person
$45 - Improves the lives of three girls, reducing the amount of time they spend procuring water
$150 - Provides safe drinking water for an entire family, immediately reducing infant mortality rates

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Received $27,685 from 338 donations from people like:

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More Information About this Project

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: $27,685
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $2,315
Total Funding Goal: $30,000

Additional Documentation

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

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.highatlasfoundation.org)

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
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.

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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 December 31, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 8, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

December 2009 update & photos

By Kate McLetchie - Former Country Director, December 04, 2009 03:27 PM

We are excited to let you know that a pilot clean drinking water project was successfully implemented in the village of Agruezzene in Morocco's southern Tifnoute Valley. Based on best practices from the pilot project, we are currently working with four other villages in the valley to bring clean drinking water to a total of 1,600 people.

Thanks to generous donors like you, we are less than $3,000 away from our fundraising goal of $25,000. Thank you! Looking for a meaningful gift to give this holiday season? Why not consider giving the gift of water to a rural Moroccan family in honor of a friend or loved one? GlobalGiving will even send your gift recipient an acknowledgment of the donation, making your gift giving even easier.

From all of us at the High Atlas Foundation, best wishes this holiday season and a joyous new year. We look forward to posting more project photos and a short video in early 2010.

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