This project installs hand pumps well and a complete solar paneled water pump in the Upper East Region of Ghana, providing safe drinking water to benefit 1000 villagers in Nyorugu; an underprivileged village, where children are dying from diseases caused by contaminated drinking water. It empowers 200 women to increase productivity through irrigation . It introduces health and sanitation by building 7 latrine pits, sponsors 7 orphans and keeps 31 girl- child in school.
Nyorugu is among the underprivileged villages with a population of about 1000 people. Almost all the villagers drink contaminated water, there are no sanitation facilities at all, childhood mortality rate is high as is maternal mortality. Many people die from preventive diseases; 20.8% of children under five with diarrhea. Women are seeking empowerment however do not have the means. Orphans are without care and protection and the girl-child cannot go to school. They are at risk and exploitation
Nyorugu has created a partnership with El-Ehsan Charitable Relief Foundation. This project addresses water, sanitation, hygiene to reduce death from diseases caused by contaminated drinking water, and irrigation to address malnutrition and hunger. Sponsoring orphans by taking on the financial obligation of supporting them and keeping the girl-child in school.
Through access to clean water the community will be in good health and productivity will improve, so that the people can work to earn their daily bread, girls can attend school as they will no longer spend hours every day walking long distances looking for water and women can create sustainable business. It will empower the poor, the destitute, the marginalized and the less privileged to discover their potentials towards self sustainability in food, health, wealth, and education.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
