• Domaine :

  Water

• Région :

  Asia

• Pays :

  Vietnam

The project:

Installation of a clean drinking water supply system for the small school of Na Lut village in Vietnam. This system will cost $ 1,300.00 UD and will benefit  55 children and their teachers.1,300.00 US.
 
The request:

In complement to its diverse sustainability activities in Cambodia, CASIRA will execute in 2016 a sustainability project at the primary school of Na Lut, in Vietnam. Right from the start of the year, a team of eleven volunteers will go to the school to build toilets and organize activities for the children, aged between 6 and 12, who attend the school. They also plan to build a staircase across the mountain to facilitate the children’s’ access to the school. A 5 000 $ US budget has been planned to bring these projects to life. We solicit your financial help to the sum of 1 300 $ US as additional support to our actions in that village so that we may build a water distribution system coming from the mountain, a tank to store it and a water fountain for the children to drink out of.
Relevance of the project:
The village of Na Lut is located in a mountainous region, in the district of Mai Châu, 4 hours from Hanoi, an important city in the north of Vietnam. A few hundred people live there in harsh conditions far from all public services. About fifty children, aged between 6 and 12, attend the primary school in the village. There already exists a water distribution system that stems from the mountain, but it is defunct. Therefore, there is no way for the children to drink or to cool off when it’s hot, nor even to wash their hands. There isn’t either a system to hold this water and to make its use easier. Kha Van Toan, the village chief, dreams of correcting the situation but doesn’t dispose of the financial means necessary. We aim to repair the water distribution system by replacing the pipes that transport water from the top of the mountain to the school, by assuring the quality of the installation, by building a water tank at the bottom of the mountain, next to the school and by building the water fountain / trough that’ll improve living conditions for all the teachers and children.
What’s more, a water filter will be installed to ensure a higher quality of water is consumed. The transport of the necessary material will require tight logistics because there aren’t any suppliers around the village. The services of a Vietnamese specialist in construction as well as an interpreter will be necessary.
Transparency and good governance of the project:
The works will be built by the Quebecor volunteers under the consul of a Vietnamese entrepreneur. The village chief has approved the realization of the project which was presented to him by Thi Tô Diêp, a Vietnamese and Canadian woman living in Vietnam.
She is our Vietnamese collaborator tied to this project and will act as intermediary throughout its realization. Finally, CASIRA’s volunteers will be on location to inaugurate the installations planned for mid February 2016.
Impact:
The reparation of the water distribution system for the school and the construction of diverse equipment tied to its use will better by a great leap the living conditions of the roughly 50 children attending the school and of the 5 professors who teach there. Drinking clean water is essential to living a healthy life. A better hygiene will ensure that the children will grow healthy without the negative impact of poor water quality.
Also, CASIRA will document your support in the report it’ll produce at the end of its 2016 mission in South-East Asia. Of course, pictures will be taken throughout the building process and at the inauguration so that they may be included in the report.
Sustainability:
These improvements to water access for the primary school will be greatly appreciated by all the villagers. Already, the village chief has vowed to ensure the proper use of the well.
Thi Tô Diêp, who frequently visits the village, will report to us the use of these new installations.
In the name of the families who will bear witness to the use of the new equipment by their children, of Diep our Vietnamese collaborator and in the name of the village chief who approves the project, I thank you for the attention given to our funding application.


Pierre Jacques Gervais
Director of CASIRA Mutual Aid Projects in Cambodia

Translated by Jean-Philippe Labre

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