By Seydou Traore | Executive Director of Community Building Group
Rainwater catchment basin in the village of kamsi has now been retrofitted with a small scale drip and sprinkler system powered by solar irrigation pumping system. This solar powered drip and sprinkler irrigation system was funded by USA embassy in Burkina Faso. Community Building Group has also contributed in the project toward the Global Giving money raising campain.
On Thursday, 28 September 2017, a inauguration ceremony was held in the village of Kamsi. About, 270 women of the "Noong-Taaba Group" of Kamsi are the direct beneficiaries of the project. With this new irrigation system, the women will have three growing cylcles vegetable crops in dry season
Testimony of Elisabeth who is the president of the women “Noong-Taaba Group of Kamsi”: This project is a great help we received, and it will help us a lot, as now we don’t have to manually supply water in the field. Before, every single day, we spent all our time to get water from the water well, and carry it to the field. To irrigate this small plot by hand take us increasingly huge among of time, because we start sometime around 9am till 5pm. This was very hard for us. Look at my hands! We don’t even think about increasing the production acreage when we irrigate manually. Now, we are very happy, we don’t carry water anymore manually, thanks to the new solar irrigation system. We are all grateful with the sprinkler and drip solar system. Now our manual labor will be reduced significantly. Watering the field was the hard task. We are very happy. We will work in turn to extend land area from 0.75 to 2 hectare ".
Sophie, a treasurer of the Noong-Taaba Group in Kamsi said that: "Only God knows our deep joy in these days, and we thank everyone involved in this work for given us this project, thank you for this initiative, may God bless them and reassure you that our thoughts go to you all at all times.
Through this project, the women of the village of Kamsi will be financially autonomous. This is a very successful example, therefore we call everyone to work hand in hand for an extension of this innovative prototype across Burkina Faso and elsewhere.
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