P-3509

Cambodia Sanitation

Description

Financing

Documents

Photos

History Logs

Project Description

Country: Cambodia

Location: Kos Khel rural area

Total Budget: $1,000

Area of Focus: Water, sanitation and hygiene

Activity Type: Health: General

Summary: Four latrine installations, with hand washing station and water filter


The Solana Beach ECO Rotary Club (ECO) is supporting a Sanitation Project designed to build 4 latrines, which includes the Tippy-tap soap hand washing station (see photo to the right below) (also a sample design brochure is attached in the project photos folder). The recipient families live in the poor rural area of Kos Khel in Cambodia, where decent toilet facilities are big issues. In addition, each family will receive a ceramic water filter to provide clean drinking water. The project will be managed through a local non-profit organization, Latrines for Life, and its partner NGO in Cambodia; Solidarity Fund for Rural Development (SFRD), which to date has constructed 214 latrines (photos of some of their previously completed latrines are included in this application). The project will be funded with $500 from the ECO Rotary and $500 from a District 5340 matching grant. The latrines are a "double-pit" system with an attached ceramic squatting base surrounded by a simple enclosure. The latrines will be constructed over a period of three months with the help of the families receiving the latrine. Education materials on proper hygiene and the importance of hand washing are attached to each latrine privacy enclosure (see left photo bottom sign). Also, group training seminars will be conducted to give instructions to families on the use and maintenance of the ceramic water filter provided.

Promoting good health in Cambodia is an important undertaking. Good sanitation is essential for health and well being, but it's not the norm in rural Cambodia, where old habits of poor hygiene are still wide spread. Open fields are still used for elimination of body waste, and hand washing (mostly not done at all) would be with a basin of water, which tends to spread germs from one person to another. The result is the contamination of streams and soils, the spread of disease, high rates of infant and young child mortality, and heavy caseloads of diarrhea and other infections.

In the photos we see one of the recipient families of the latrine/tippy-tap project - built in previous years with funds from Rotary clubs. In the left photo, visiting Rotarians from district 5340 are seen by the latrine installation their club funded. The SFRD director is in white shirt in the center photo, where the Ath Ratha family is shown receiving a commemorative poster recognizing Rotary. To the right we see children using the tippy-tap hand washing station.

Project Contact Person

District: 5340

Rotary Club of: Solana Beach

Primary Contact: Niels Lund

Email: info@sbecorotary.org

Project Status

Completed
This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners.

Project listed for the 2020-21 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Solana Beach (5340)

17-Jul-20

$500

$500

$1,000

Total

$500

$500

$1,000

Project Supporting Documents

Project Photos

History Log Entries

17-Jul-20

by Niels Lund

System Entry: Creation of project page.

27-Jul-20

by Niels Lund

System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.

27-Jul-20

by Niels Lund

System Entry: Project signed by Niels Lund.

28-Jul-20

by Niels Lund

System Entry: Signature Process cancelled by user.

28-Jul-20

by Niels Lund

System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.

28-Jul-20

by Niels Lund

System Entry: Project signed by Niels Lund.

28-Jul-20

by Lynn Stevens

System Entry: Project signed by Lynn Stevens.

18-Aug-20

by Elana Levens-Craig

System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee.

7-Oct-20

by James Morrison

System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer.

18-Mar-21

by Niels Lund

System Entry: Final Report signed by Niels Lund.

19-Mar-21

by Lynn Stevens

System Entry: Final Report signed by Lynn Stevens.

19-Mar-21

by Elana Levens-Craig

System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.

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