Potable Water supply to 13000 villagers in Nigeria

Once more, thank you to GlobalGiving, our donors worldwide and Dako foundation team for making this project a reality. It is about 10 years now, since over 13,000 people in our index community have been enjoying free portable water.

However, there are challenges. The facility is aging and there are damaged pipes and taps. There's increasing cost of personnel salaries. The power supply has become more epileptic. The economic situation in Nigeria which has got worse has also contributed to the challenges. 

As a result of the damaged taps and pipes, 6 service points have been closed and this has put more pressure on the other service points. 

 The total number of hours of power supply from the National grid in a week is less than 6 and these are the only hours water is pumped for supply to the people.

Consequently, the need for a complementary source of power supply cannot be over emphasized. A 13KVA lithium battery powered solar source of power will be a relieve.

An estimate of $13,000.00 is needed to repair the damaged taps and pipes and provide adequate alternative power source as mentioned above.

We appeal to our generous donors world-wide to make donations to enable us achieve this goal.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Dako, Mamudu

Project Coordinator

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This is to once again thank GlobalGiving and our donors worldwide for making this project possible.

Thousands of individuals and families have benetted from this laudible project. Many zoonotic diseases have been avoided amd many lost school hours have been avoided in these affected communities due to this facility. 

However. there has been a progressive inadequate water supply to these communities due to poor  power supply, ageing equipment, increasing population of this rural communities, and the increasing cost of facility maintenace.

Consequently,water supply from our facility only comes for a few hours in the day when there is power supply from the National Grid. it is usually chaotic at all our service points during the limited hours water pumping.occurs.

The solution to this water suppy inadequacy is power supply augmentation with solar powered system. With much sunlight in this communities all the year round the only materials needed to make  this possible are 15 solar panels, 6KVA lithium batteries and the necessary accessaries for equipment connections.

The estimated cost of these materials with labour is $25,000.00 [Twenty five thousands dollars.}

We appeal to GlobalGiving and our numerous donors to donate generously to enable us achieve this last phase of this project.

Thank you all.

Yours sincerely.

Dr Dako mamudu

Project manager.