Water and Sanitation

PROJECT TITLE: Water and Sanitation
PROJECT LOCATION: Nyongrial Payam at Baliet County, Upper Nile State, South Sudan
PROJECT DURATION: 2010-2012
NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES: 45,000 people, including the returnees

Nyongrial Payam in Baliet County is home to nearly 50,000 people with high levels of poverty and illiteracy. Sanitation is the principal dilemma as just 2% of residents have access to clean drinking water. This leads to an increase in diseases such as cholera and typhoid, while childhood diarrhea is one of the leading causes of death for the children. With good sanitation and reliable access to healthy drinking water, these conditions are simply avoidable.

PLCR is committed to installing a Water Supply System to supply the drinking water for 45,000 people with a minimum of 10 liters per person per day in Nyongrial village. PLCR will upkeep the Water Supply System, improving water management skills and capacity building among local authorities with the vision to hand the operation of the Water Supply System to local authorities in early 2012. Moreover, PLCR is committed to promoting hygiene awareness training for both local populations and local authorities in order to reduce high-risk behavior, best practice training sessions for technicians and local hygiene promoters. The training sessions are open to the community through information banners, wall paintings and distribution of hygiene kits.

PROJECT TITLE: Water and Sanitation
PROJECT LOCATION: Jak Payam at Tonj South County, Warrap State, South Sudan
PROJECT DURATION: 2010-2012
NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES: 90,000 people

In partnership with the Sudan Education & Development Association, PLCR staff met with local officials to identify which areas were most in need of clean water sources, and appropriate sites have been selected to construct the boreholes and sanitation facilities in Jak village. To address this issue, PLCR is committed to improving the drinking water supply quality and quantity by drilling the boreholes and building the sanitation facilities in Jak Payam. PLCR is committed to improving the skills of the laboratory technicians, equiping the analysis laboratory and training bacteriology technicians so that they can ensure maintenance of their water points.

PROJECT TITLE: Boreholes Drilling
PROJECT LOCATION: Akotweng Village at Akoka County, Upper Nile State, South Sudan
PROJECT DURATION: 2010-2012
NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES: 35,000 people

Project objective:

• Construct new water sources, providing clean water for 45, 000 people in Akotweng village
• Train resident to manage and maintain their water sources, helping them plan for the long term
• Reduce water-borne illnesses and to prevent cholera epidemics and the spread of malaria
• Increase access to safe drinking water for the population of Akotweng Payam in Baliet County
• Promote sanitation and provide toilets and shower kiosks for public use in Akotweng
• Educate the community, and young children in particular, about how to protect themselves from the water-related diseases.

PLCR is eager to provide clean water to the people of Akotweng village with regards to water access and sanitation by covering 100% of their drinking water needs from the treatment plant, about 15 liters of water per day per person for 500 people. This will allow 95% of the population of Akotweng village to have access to boreholes in the event of epidemic diseases.

Please help PLCR to bring clean water and hope to the communities in Southern Sudan.

Thank you for your support! Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions.

PLCR is a registered Canadian charitable organization and all gifts are tax deductible. An official acknowledgment will be mailed to you. Tax receipts are mailed once per year.