• Domaine :

  Water

• Région :

  South America

• Pays :

  Peru

The project:

At the Nopoki University Center, on the outskirts of Atalaya, Peru, a solar pumping system was installed to replace an excessively expensive generator in maintenance and fuel. The project will be carried out at a cost of $ 33,250.00 and will provide drinking water to the 530 students and 50 professors of the University Center.

The request:

Montréal May 23rd 2017
From: André Frache, The Wings of Hope
To: The Montréal Rotary Club and Fondation Coup de Coeur

Dear Jean, dear Fatima,

Following our telephone conversation, here are the details of the project mentioned above.

Location:
The Nopoki University Center is located on the outskirts of Atalaya in the Peruvian Amazon. The city is located at the point where the rivers Urubamba and Tambo converge to form the Ucayali River and its population exceeds 30,000 inhabitants. The campus was built on a former farm and the students participate in agricultural production. They produce the majority of the food they consume.

The goal:
The Center was established primarily for the training of indigenous teachers for indigenous jungle schools. The first condition for admission is to speak one of the aboriginal languages. Ten ethnic groups are present at the Center. The University Sedes Sapientiae of Lima assumes the academic part and awards the diplomas. The Ministry of Education grants the posts of professors in priority to graduate students of the Nopoki Center.
Over the years, a faculty of agricultural engineering has been added and recently a faculty of administration. A total of some 530 students are enrolled in 2017 and some fifty professors teach the courses.

Infrastructures:
Classrooms, kitchen, dining room, dormitories (for some 150 students, others live in town with relatives or friends), carpentry and craft workshops, health post, volunteers' house, Radio San station Antonio, facilities for agriculture, fish farming and raising poultry and cuyes.

The well and the tank:
Since the beginning of 2003, The Wings of Hope has supported the Nopoki Center. The main contribution was the installation of a drinking water supply system: a well of 15 meters depth, a hexagonal tank of 20 meters in height and a capacity of 50 cubic meters.
Since the inauguration of the system in 2011, the pumping is powered by a generator. However, the cost of fuel is very high in the Amazon, and this is compounded by difficulties in maintaining the generator, which had already been in use for several years before it was commissioned at Nopoki in 2011.

The project:
We asked Water Mission to do the corresponding study and develop the solar pumping project and they provided us with the plans and the total project cost of $ 33,250.00 Cdn.

Funding:
Most of our funding will come from the Spanish Zapallal organization, $ 28,750.00 Cdn, and any contribution from the Rotary Club of Montreal, Coup de Coeur Foundation or others will be greatly appreciated.

In all friendship,

André Franche
President The Wings of Hope
 


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