G-2532

Donation Of Eight (8) Borehole

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Project Description

Region: Africa

Country: Nigeria

Location: Kwara State

Total Budget: $37,861

Area of Focus: Water, sanitation and hygiene



The Rotary Club of Ilorin with great understanding of the global need for clean water and improved sanitation, being one of Rotary Foundation's six areas of focus, discussed and interacted with the community leaders of the 8 (Eight) Poverty stricken communities and they complained about the lack of portable water for domestic purposes which has led to poor sanitation. The lack of clean water and poor sanitation has caused many diseases.

Making a difference in these communities in the areas of water and sanitation will significantly affect the lives of all in these communities as the only available water they have access to is from shallow rivers that carries diseases and the stress in getting the water has made hand washing very difficult. Additionally these water sources are 1-4km away from the villages, requiring women and children to trek as much as 15-20 hours per week to fetch it. This is evident in the mortality rate, resentment to good education by the children as they do not have access to portable water and spend most early hours going through routine stress getting water for the family and household hence exhaustion cum resentment and the rate of spread of Covid-19 is increasing daily as water is not available for washing of hands and other hygiene and sanitation activities

Viruses are much smaller than bacteria and are typically harder to remove from hands. This means it's important to wash hands thoroughly (for about 20 seconds), creating a nice soapy lather, scrubbing all over your hands and then rinsing the soap off fully.

Hands get easily re-contaminated. An hour after hand washing with soap they will typically be as contaminated as prior to washing them. This means it's important to wash your hands as regularly as possible.

It is expected that providing the boreholes will contribute to reduce the rate of increment of the spread of Covid-19 and other diseased and take away morning fatigue thus energized zeal towards education as we encourage them and support them during the course of this project while we visit quarterly for one year to ensure the impact of the project is maximally felt and optimized

Primary Host Partner

District: 9125

Rotary Club of: Ilorin

Primary Contact: Waheed Abiola Shittu

Email: shittu.waheed@yahoo.com

Primary International Partner

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Project Status

Dropped
This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped.

Project listed for the 2020-21 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Ilorin (9125)

22-Jul-20

$3,000

$3,000

$6,000

Remaining Amount to Raise

Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution

$28,861

-

$28,861

Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation

-

$3,000

$3,000

Total

$37,861

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

22-Jul-20

System Entry

System Entry: Creation of project page.

2-Sep-21

System Entry

System Entry: Project dropped per lack of response to the carry-over notification emails.

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