The project aims to build deep well and install with hand pump to provide clean and safe drinking water to over 1000 Fulani people in Mogny Koufen, Foumbot of Cameroon. It aims to reduce infant mortality and the prevalence of cholera and other water born diseases among Fulani women and their children.
Fulani people live in interior part of Foumbot, in Mogny village for grazing and agriculture and lack clean water; depend on dirty streams where the share with livestock, lack of health care, lack of education,Children are affected by waterborne diseases and to seek medical attention, they travel miles on foot and horses before they can get a car to the hospital, which result in infant mortality and maternal death. There is no support due to tough navigation where they live.
The project will build deep well and install with hand pump to provide clean and safe drinking water for over 1000 Fulani people in Wes region of Cameroon, who live in inaccessible area for grazing and agriculture. It will provide training on hygiene and sanitation, and on water purification and management for Fulani Women in target village to reduce the prevalence of cholera and infant mortality.
There will be an improvement in health and well-being for over 1000 people. Water is life and that life flows through women-the primary users and collectors of water worldwide. The installation of deep well shapes everything from health to education to economic opportunity. This deep Well with hand pump is climate resilient and adapted to climate realities, extreme weather events like flooding, and over drought cannot affect this underground water, and living conditions improved with roads.
