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While most of our projects were completed in 2008, IHSAN has been monitoring the sustainability and success of the projects throughout 2009 to learn valuable lessons on project sustainability vital for our future projects. We are now in a position to report not only the intent of our projects…but the impact as well!
Thanks to funding from individual members, construction was completed in early-2009 on a community eco-sanitation facility in the Tamil Nadu State of India which now serves the needs of 750 individuals on a daily basis.
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In India, it is estimated that at least 400 million people live on or below the poverty line and 52-percent of people do not have access to basic sanitation. Women and children experience the worst effects of this poverty. Through member donations, IHSAN sponsored a project which provides eco-sanitation toilets, bathing rooms, and clothes washing facilities for women living in the semi-urban area of Cuddalore Old Town in the Tamil Nadu State of India, which is severely affected by extreme poverty. Despite monsoon rains causing lengthy delays in the construction, the project was completed in early-2009. Although the project was designed for women and children only, the community recognized the need for a male area as well and built this into the design. A total of 750 people now use the facility daily (450 more than anticipated during design!) The community members maintain the complex themselves and charge each family a small fixed fee per month which pays for the sustainability of the complex. The compost will be sold to local farmers and the urine/water mix runs to a cottage garden near the complex from which the community sells produce. All funds from the compost and produce sales go back into the community which helps lift the entire community out of poverty.
Thanks to funding from individual members, phase one hygiene education was completed in 3Q08. IHSAN sponsored a sanitation and personal hygiene program to address the needs of more than 42,000 refugees residing in the Buduburam Refugee Settlement in Ghana.
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Aside from constructing billboards with sanitation and health messages across the camp, CBW also went door-to-door to educate camp residents on water and sanitation, waste management and litter control and environmental safety. CBW conducted post-project studies to understand how the messages were being received by camp residents and how successful and sustainable the project was at educating the greater community.
The results:
• CBW has reported trash/rubbish or waste management in general has improved over the period since they started with this phase of the sanitation project on the settlement.
• The misuse of drains and other public places has been tremendously reduced.
• The CBW garbage bins are in proper use due to the messages on the billboards and others means CBW have employed.
• According to one resident “we are responsible for many of our killer diseases only because we never knew what we been doing.”
Thanks to funding from Quantum Reservoir Impact and individual members, and the coordination of Project Partner Wherever The Need, IHSAN’s first Sierra Leone project was completed in May 2008.
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The project provided a new eco-sanitation toilet facility, a water hand-pump, and water, hygiene, and livelihood training in the Helebu Village of the Pejeh Chiefdom in Eastern Sierra Leone. This community of 1,700 people which lived under the poverty line was affected by lack of safe drinking water and adequate sanitation causing 2 out of every 5 children under 5 years old to die from water and sanitation related diseases. Thanks to IHSAN’s projects, the community now has the means for survival and tools to empower themselves for the future. This project is part of a larger program to provide water, sanitation, hygiene training, and livelihood programs to 17 villages comprising the entire Pejeh Chiefdom.
Thanks to funding from individual members and the Los Angeles IHSAN Chapter fundraiser, construction has been completed on five open dams in the Rift Valley. These dams are not only providing safe drinking water but much needed jobs to displaced people.
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These new dams will help many disadvantaged communities in central Kenya who are used to depending on the depleted Malewa and Turahsa rivers for their livelihood. This project will improve the health of individuals since clean drinking water is provided, women and livestock will not have to walk for long distances to find water, and farmers will be able to irrigate their land for better crop production leading to an improved income. The dams are a vital part of Malewa Trust’s (IHSAN’s Project Partner) environmental education program to teach local communities how to construct sustainable farms and water sources and teach children the importance of the environment. This project is part of a larger IHSAN campaign for the construction of 30 total open water dams, rainwater harvesting equipment and water education programs to provide access to water for over 20,000 people in the Malewa area of central Kenya. The funds raised by the Los Angeles IHSAN Chapter provided for two dams at the Kimbo School in Malewa valley. This not only means water for the school, but school girls will no longer have the miss classes to collect water from the rivers. They can now utilize water from the Kimbo reservoirs to meet their families’ needs.
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| Donate today to the IHSAN-sponsored project of your choice. |
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| IHSAN is now accepting proposals for sustainable development projects in disadvantaged communities. |
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