Kibera slum in Nairobi has scarcity of clean water and poor sanitation, water supplied by city authority is not available every day. Water in Kibera is scarce, costly, uncertain and contaminated due to various reasons including; it's an informal settlement that is built without official authorization and regulation, political exclusion, operation of water mafias, water rationing, poor infrastructure, illegal connections Women and girls loose a lot of time searching for water
Kibera slum,has over 1 million residents and no access to clean water and poor sanitation.Women, girls and children are the most affected by scarcity of clean water, this has led to many waterborne diseases and with high poverty rates many people cant afford to pay for quality health services thus increase in mortality rate, diarrhea being the leading killer disease of children under five years. Most girls cant afford time for education because they spend a lot of time looking for water.
The project will ensure availability of affordable clean water by sinking a borehole at little rock school, which has a target group of orphans, infected , affected by HIV Aids poor and children with special needs,installing two water tanks and setting up a water Kiosk where the school will be able to access clean water and sell to the neighboring residents.The school management and community members will be mobilized into groups and trained on resource mobilization and enterprises development
Waterborne diseases will be controlled thus reduction of mortality rate, money previously used for hospital bills will be put into other uses, girls will have humble time to attend to school and women will have more time to do productive work. Over 1000 people will benefit from this project.The proposed project of water entrepreneurship will also enable little rock school to have access to water which will eventually lead to improved attendance of school going children particularly girls
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
