Sondu Water Enterprise

WHY ARE WE ASKING FOR MORE FUNDS

We would like to improve and scale up our services to have a bigger health impact and chance of sustainability of the Sondu Water Enterprise in the near future.

• Many costumers are already reaching the enterprise for water. We would like to take advantage of this and offer few health products for sale, such as hand washing soaps, household water treatment, jerry cans, ceramic filters, toilet tissue, sanitary pads, solar lamps, clean cook stoves, nutritional supplements, mosquito nets and repellent soaps. These products are already available at SWAP and can be introduced to Sondu.
• Monthly Stipend for a Community Health Promoter, who would focus on health education and sales of products while assisting with the water sales.
• Refresher trainings of the team on business skills, record keeping, social marketing and social behavioral change communication, product, health and hygiene promotion and safe water systems interventions.
• Community and partners engagement, regular local leaders meetings, meetings with community health volunteers to enhance ownership, support and community mobilization.
• A smart phone for the water operator and community health volunteer for transmission of sales data and mobile money transfer (Mpesa).
• Branded T shirts and leso’s used by mothers as wrap around skirts and to carry their babies. Also branded riding gears for the motorbike riders who sell water to households. This can be used as marketing tool and incentive for regular customers.
• Solar panels to facilitate the water operator to continue operations and sales in the evenings and increase sales and revenue
• Solar security lights for the night
• Solar pump to avoid the cost of fuel ongoing.
• Training of a reliever during leave or sickness of the water operator
• Monthly water quality tests and monitoring which can be done at SWAP's water lab
• Monthly wages of the water operator and security guard
• Continued maintenance of the site

• Water and Sanition improvements in rural Kenya (DOCX)