G-2953

Clean Water in Kenya Schools

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Project Description

Region: Africa

Country: Kenya

Location: Nakuru County

Total Budget: $36,024

Area of Focus: Water, sanitation and hygiene



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Kenya Clean Water in Schools Proposal

Location: Schools near Nakuru, Kenya

Background

For a dozen years, a Rotary project together with a couple of key churches in Fort Collins and Aspen, Colorado have teamed to provide clean water systems and related knowledge to about 100 mostly rural and poor schools in the Meru, Isiolo and Nakuru regions of Kenya. These are schools that had no borehole and no rainwater harvesting. Water at the time of our involvement was either carried from some distance or was not potable or both. Our objective has been to improve school attendance and performance especially for girls by way of better health with less intestinal water-borne disease and education. This is a continuation of that work.

Project Overview

In brief, for those school communities who request our assistance and provide some in-kind help, we will build a rainwater harvest and storage system, filtering and hand-washing stations. This work is all performed by a trusted and experienced Kenyan contractor. The contractor is also an excellent communicator who educates the school children and families on the importance of water, sanitation and hygiene. We plan to collect the current attendance and school test scores as well as anecdotes about children's absences due to health problems. This will form a baseline for tracking the change in future attendance and performance that might be attributed to better WASH behaviors at the school.

In recent years, when we have visited schools, we have distributed washable sanitary products for girls and with teachers conducted education classes separately with boys and girls about puberty. This education is conducted only with the concurrence and participation of the school families and faculty. We plan to continue this work and instruct families on how to make the reusable sanitary products.

A new part of this project is to help build a school vegetable garden and teach gardening-basics to students and faculty. Again, our Kenya contractor who grew-up on a farm will teach this course.

Proposed Cost:

10 schools @ $4000 = $40,000

Note: Like everywhere, inflation is rampant in Kenya at the time of this writing. So, it is possible that fewer schools can be helped if material and labor prices rise further.

Project Detail Summary

At each school:

• Brief the head teacher about the project. Obtain the commitment (or not) of the head teacher and the school community to participate.

• Collect current attendance and school test scores as baseline data.

• Install one 10K liter rainwater storage poly tank

• Install guttering and spouts from school buildings and connect to the 10k tank

• Repair and reconnect any existing guttering and connect to the tank

• Install a minimum of two micro-pore filters for drinking water

• Install a minimum of two hand washing stations

• Construct a small surface water storage pond with a plastic liner to store gray water

• Construct a small vegetable garden are enclosure with fencing

• Purchase or gather donated vegetable seeds

• Train students, faculty and parents about WASH and rudimentary gardening

• Visit schools semi-annually to check on performance and retrain as necessary and report

• Collect and report attendance and school test scores annually for 3 years

Labor

A longtime native contractor for us (Isaac Soita) will design and manage the project using hired labor and school student and parent labor.

Project Management

Our contractor does not have the resources to "front" the funding for water projects. Therefore, funds for materials and labor (about 85% of the total cost) will be sent in advance. Receipts will be sent by the contractor to Rich Fisher before final payment of profit and overhead.

Plans and Expectations

• If/when the rains come, the storage of additional water will improve water supply

• The water filters can be used with the stored rain water and even water from livestock tanks to improve water quality and reduce water-borne disease

• Grow a garden with gray water using the fencing keep smaller animals out

• In time, the students may be able to grow food of sufficient supply to sell with the profits used to improve learning at the school

Cooperator

E-Rotary Club of Rift Valley

Ethans Githinji, Club President 2024-2025

Metricagency@gmail.com

Primary Host Partner

District: 9212

Rotary Club of: E-Club of Rift Valley

Primary Contact: Ethans Githinji

Email: metricagency@gmail.com

Primary International Partner

District: 5440

Rotary Club of: Fort Collins

Primary Contact: Rich Fisher

Email: ben993q@gmail.com

Project Status

Your project is "Fully Pledged". This means the amount of the pledges is equal to the total budget of the project. Now the project needs to be finalized and go through the approval process with The Rotary Foundation. This process gets started on the administration page.

Project listed for the 2024-25 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Fort Collins (5440)

13-Jul-22

$5,000

$10,000

$15,000

District 5330 DDF

14-Jan-23

-

$3,100

$3,100

Fullerton (5320)

27-Nov-23

$1,000

$0

$1,000

District 5790 DDF

23-Jan-24

-

$2,300

$2,300

District 3201 DDF

24-Jan-24

-

$1,280

$1,280

Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation

-

$13,344

$13,344

Total

$36,024

DDF contributions in grey are pending approval of the corresponding district committee.

Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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History Log Entries

12-Jul-22

System Entry

System Entry: Creation of project page.

13-Jul-22

System Entry

System Entry: Pledge of $5,000 with $10,000 DDF by Robin Steele of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins, District 5440.

14-Jan-23

System Entry

System Entry: Pledge of $3,100 DDF by Daniel Hake of the Rotary Club of Corona, District 5330.

27-Feb-23

System Entry

System Entry: Pledge of $2,000 by Dave Zuehlke of the Rotary Club of Arlington Heights, District 6440.

25-Mar-23

System Entry

System Entry: Pledge of $2,000 by Ronald Gerlach of the Rotary Club of Arlington Heights, District 6440.

27-Nov-23

by Terri Grassi

System Entry: Pledge of $1,000 by Terri Grassi of the Rotary Club of Fullerton, District 5320.

23-Jan-24

by Justin Lemish

System Entry: Pledge of $2,300 DDF by Justin Lemish of the Rotary Club of Champions (Justin), District 5790.

24-Jan-24

System Entry

System Entry: Pledge of $1,280 DDF by Rtn. Dr Deepana S N of the Rotary Club of Coimbatore Elite, District 3201.

24-Jan-24

System Entry

System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged".

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