Access to drinking water and sanitation
Currently, only 5% of the population has access to an improved drinking water source, which affects the health of the population, impacts their low life expectancy and causes very high infant mortality.
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Water is life
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Water scarcity affects the quality of education, especially for girls. They spend a lot of time walking to collect water instead of going to school. 28% of the population over 15 is literate, but this rate for women does not exceed 15%.
In order to strengthen the rate of access to water and improve living conditions, health and food security, the association must still build more village wells and market garden wells.
Ultimately, these achievements will lighten the chores of women, allowing them to develop income-generating activities. Children will no longer have to do water chores, which will allow them to go to school.
Our goal is to bring water closer to families. To do this, we create or rehabilitate drinking water wells, so that each camp is less than 10 km from a water point. At the same time, we train the populations in the maintenance of water points and insist on the absolute necessity of preserving drinking water. The average lifespan of a well is estimated at 30 years.
The populations of the area tend to settle down and start working the land. The rehabilitation of market gardening wells enables a greater number of inhabitants to create larger market gardens. This action contributes to the fight against food insecurity, but also to the increase in income.
By creating the conditions for sustainable economic and social development, food security for populations is guaranteed. Market gardening wells allow beneficiary families to create well-irrigated market gardens and thus generate an attractive profit through the production of vegetables (especially onions) sold in the markets.
Situation at the end of 2020:
116 pastoral wells
152 market garden wells
29 village wells
4 solar boreholes