Dear Supporters, Friends and Family of Serendipity,
Stopping Open Defecation, Hello New access to water and Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine!!! Since our training on making our schools WASH Friendly, we rehabilitated the hand pump in front of the pupils living with disability school in Dawakin Tofa LGA and built two new Ventilated Improved Pit latrines for the pupils to stop open defecation, we also installed one new handpump in Gargadi Albarkawa Choge in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area, Kano. All of this only could have been possible through your kind donation!!! We say a Huge THANK YOU!!!
Our School and community are so excited about all this and say their gratitude in the local language.
Our next steps are to provide COVID 19 materials which includes face masks, hand sanitizers, temperature test kits, hand wash centers and palliatives to our schools and communities in the next coming weeks, before schools close for Christmas holidays.
With your kind donations we can continue providing access to water and sanitation facilities to our communities, making our schools WASH friendly and good hand washing practices.
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Best Regards,
Samirah Faruk
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Dear Supporters, Friends and Family of Serendipity,
Open defecation has been a terrible practice in our communities as we informed you in our last report and thus led to our conducting a workshop “Making Our Schools WASH Friendly”. The workshop was a one day event where we taught 6 schools we have done projects on provision of access to water, toilets and COVID 19 relief materials through your kind donations.
The schools that attended the workshop were Government Girls Secondary School Tarauni, Millenium Primary and Secondary Schools, Bawo Road, Engineer Bashir Karaye primary and Secondary School, Sabon Gari Gadan Primary School, Salha Academy and Persons living with disability primary school.
The schools were taught on how to make their schools WASH friendly using the basic guidelines set out in the Hygiene Improvement Programme started by USAID for School Directors, Teachers, Parents (PTA) and other stakeholders. The schedule of programme is based on why WASH matters, Why WASH is important in schools, Discovering the WASH situation in Schools, Understanding the WASH problem, How to make our schools WASH Friendly and the 13 Basic steps to making our Schools WASH Friendly.
Now with your kind donations, we are able to do this workshop successfully and in six months time, WASH Evaluators and Specialists will visit the schools to evaluate the schools and award the schools that have taken to heart and implemented all what they have been taught.
We sincerely thank you for the support your have shown to us that our schools become WASH Friendly through this training and NOW we can be assured that open defecation practices are reduced and good handwashing and hygiene practices are adopted!
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Yours Faithfully
Samirah Faruk
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Dear Supporters, Friends and Family of Serendipity,
Open defecation has been a terrible practice in our communities and this led to a research conducted by UNICEF where our country Nigeria was ranked amongst the top ten in open defecation practices in 2018 which leads to our waters getting contaminated, low hygiene practices and susceptibility to diarrhea, cholera and dysentry; now with the coming of the pandemic the situation has worsened.
Sadly open defecation is still practiced and this mainly due to lack of access to limited or no good sanitation facilities such as Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines in schools, hospitals, public places and thus have to contend with open defecation.
Part of our goal is to ensure that schools in our communities have access to good sanitation facilities hence the start of our many projects on sanitation for our children have started with S.Gadan primary and secondary school in Ungogo Local Government Council in Kano where 2 new Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines were built in addition to the existing two toilets built by the local governing council for a population of 2500 students.
Now with your kind donations, we were able to build two new VIP toilets to add to the existing ones and reduce the inadequacies of sanitation facilities.
We sincerely thank you for the support your have shown to us that our children in schools stop open defecation and especially our girls have their dignity restored, not susceptible to harrassment, violence, rape and stay in school instead of at home because of lack of sanitation facilities. Now they are SAFE!!!
Further help and support is needed to ensure that we provide more sanitation facilities and access to water in our schools, hospitals and communities.
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Yours Faithfully
Abubakar Sadiq
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Dear Supporters, Friends and Family of Serendipity,
Children in Malamawa Community in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area in Kano walk everyday to the pond on the outskirts of their community to fetch water that is dirty, filled with waste from animals and algae, this is because the only handpump cited in the community that is serving a population of over 3000 persons broke down over 5 years ago.
They have been going to the pond everyday for the past five years and do not attend school and fall ill due to drinking such water thus not being useful to themselves or to the community. Not getting access to safe clean drinking water will make the situation worse as the children will not have a life instead only fight everyday for survival. The community could not fix the hand pump due to low financial capacity and lack of knowledge of what to do or the technical know how of fixing the hand pump.
In our goal to ensure that communities get access to safe clean drinking water, we rehabilitated the only hand pump in the community with your kind donations, where we changed 5 pipes that was rusted to new ones and 1 casing however with as little as $25 a month you can contribute to ensure that we rehabilitate a hand pump gone bad or $1000 to install a new hand pump in our communities because water is life and there are so many communities that do not have access to safe clean drinking water.
Thank you so much for the continued support that you have been doing to ensure our children are free from water borne diseases and have access to safe clean drinking water.
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Best Regards,
Abubakar Sadiq
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Dear Family, Supporters and Friends of Serendipity,
I am proud to say that we have completed one of our milestones in our strategy to provide access to water, sanitation and hygiene in five local governing councils in Kano Municipal, Tarauni, Ungogo, Tofa and Fagge local Governing councils.
In Tarauni, a handpump was installed in Government Girls Secondary School with a population of 2000 students, In Kano Municipal Engineer Bashir Karaye Secondary School a motorized borehole was installed with a population of 1500 students, In Tofa, Tofa Town Primary Healthcare Center a hand pump was installed with an average of 750 outpatient per day that cover both Tofa town community and their immediate neighbors of Sabon Kofa and Yan Gari Communities. In Ungogo, Amarzakaya community a hand pump was installed in the city center which is in the middle of the community where over 550 persons will have access to water thus leaving enough time for the children to prepare for school and the women to be productive and finally in Fagge, Sabon Gari community a motorized borehole was installed that will cater for 30 households with average of 20 persons per household.
We are yet to collect our signed MOUs from the communities as part of our due diligence for sustainability, maintenance and security of the water sources which will be done over the next few days as schools just resumed and a gradual return to normalcy as a result of lockdown due to COVID 19 virus.
Our next steps are to provide more access to safe clean drinking Water, Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines, distribution of COVID 19 materialsto schools and primary health care centers because we want everyone to stay safe, trainings on good hand washing practices and workshops to identify and certify our schools as WASH Friendly schools.
Our strategy of leaving no one behind entails reaching the poorest of the poor who cannot afford WASH Services while combating discrimination and rising inequalities in provision of WASH, as in the first-place safe clean drinking water and sanitation is a fundamental human right.
You have been helpful to us in succeeding to ensure that no one is left behind in the access to water, sanitation and Hygiene through your generous donations, advice and support because you care all through the years as you have been on this journey with us. Thank You for that!!
July 14th is GlobalGiving Bonus Day where funds from $100 will be matched at 15%, 30% match on donations from $500 and 50% match on donations from $750 starting at 9.00am ET and we at Serendipity will be participating.
Thus mark your calendars NOW to DONATE to get your funds matched so that we continue to ensure that no one gets left behind.
Best Regards,
Samirah Faruk
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