This project will provide the Morop Mixed Day Secondary School with a new 10,000 liter water tank that will supply clean and safe water to the children and the surrounding community. This will increase the retention of students in school. Having clean water reduces student absence due to infection from water borne diseases. With clean water, the school can implement a tree planting program as well as kitchen gardens which can augment the lunch program.
No clean water in the school. According to the WASH Joint Monitoring Programme Report (2019) by The World Health Organization and UNICEF, only 59% of Kenyans have access to basic water services and only 29% have access to proper sanitary services. School-aged children are at a high risk for water-related morbidities, including soil-transmitted helminths and trachoma; this age group experiences over 2.8 billion cases of diarrhea annually. No water leads to a high dropout rate for the school.
In purchasing and installing two 10k liter water tanks and connecting them to the school roofs, we are able to capture rainwater and store it. Adding filters makes the water potable. Students are now able to have drinking water at school, teenage girls feel safe coming to school, a school garden is able to use the 'brown water' for irrigation and growing food for lunch. Hygiene training and a hand washing station minimize disease transmission. A major barrier to education has been removed.
One of the goals for sustainable development identified by the United Nations is INCLUSIVE AND QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL. Education is one of the most powerful and proven vehicles towards sustainable development for marginalized and impoverished communities. Another sustainable development goal is ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION. Both of these goals are achieved when clean water is provided and hygiene is facilitated. The impact is a way out of poverty for each child.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
