Providing 26 Schools with Rainwater Tanks

Summary

Galela Amanzi fundraises to establish and maintain 26 rainwater tanks in various selected schools and community groups that do not have access to clean and safe water.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $630 was raised for this project.

Received $630 from 5 donations from people like:

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

By placing rainwater tanks in schools and community groups that do not have access to clean and safe water; communities are able to maintain sustainable vegetable gardens which provide food to families in their community; and schools are prevented from potential closure due sanitary issues. 13 Schools (Fikizolo Primary, S. Ntsiko Primary, Tantyi Primary etc.) and community groups (Masihlumisane community garden, Temba TB Hospital) in Grahamstown. 13 Outreach- Areas outside Grahamstown.

Activities

By placing rainwater tanks in select areas communities are able to maintain sustainable vegetable gardens and provide food to families in their community; and schools are prevented from potential closure due sanitary issues.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $630

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $630 .  The original project funding goal was $27,386.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project hopes to encourage the community to care about developing a healthy, stable community. Furthermore, rain water tanks will highlight the potential to reduce the demand on the limited South African municipal water supply.

Project Message

“Imagine playing soccer with your friends and all of a sudden you bruise your knee. You are unable to clean up because there is no water running through the tap” What then do you do?”
- Pearl Mzobe, Community Member and project Alumni

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Nicola Rushmere
Co-ordinator
5 Prince Alfred Street
PO Box 94
Grahamstown, Eastern Cape 6140
South Africa
27823282935
Email:

Project Sponsor

Center for Global Engagement, Northwestern Univ

Organization

The Galela Amanzi (Pour the Water) project
5 Prince Alfred Street PO Box 94
Grahamstown, Eastern Cape 6140
South Africa
+2784 798 5923
http://amanzi.rucus.ru.ac.za

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in South AfricaSouth Africa and can also be found under HealthHealth.

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

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 17, 2009