Objectives: To reconstruct the existing water system (sourced from the local spring) and the two reservoirs so that the local community have access to clean water.

 

Intended beneficiaries: Water will be available to the two school dormitories, the hospital, church, two schools priest's house. The whole community will benefit particularly the women and children who carry water everyday on their heads. The mission has 59 communities with a population of 10,000.

 

Description activities: The St Benedict Mission under the Diocese of Lwena was destroyed by war in Angola in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since 2005 the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart have been rebuilding the community. The school, dormitory for girls and hospital have all reopended. MSC provided AUD$25,000.00 to fund the reconstruction of the old water system and two water reservoirs. The local community contributed by producing local materials such as gravel and sand, made cement blocks to reconstruct the two water reservoirs and assisted in digging and canalisation. Before applying for assistance from MSC, local youths had already cleaned the whole area, the diocese had supplied a truck to transport gravel, sand and cement blocks, and the youths made the cement blocks in the river banks. 

 

Progress  to date: This project was aproved in december of 2007 and has now been completed. 

 

Budget: As set out in the application attached the funding provided by MSC included the costs of materials and transportation of those materials from Lwena to Cazombo.   

 

 

 

Objectives: To supply clean water for drinking and sanitation to the community training centre in the Malamulele Parish. The centre organises training to raise awareness among the youth and parents of the district about the devastating effects of HIV/Aids.

 

Intended beneficiaries: The community of Malamulele who access the training centre

 

Description of activities: The MSC Mission Office provided the funding for locals of the Malamulele communities to drill a borehole and install a tank.

 

Progress to date: The tank was installed in December-January 2007/2008 and now provides clean drinking water to the centre and the local community.

 

Budget: The project cost $AUD12,248.00 and included the costs of drilling the borehole, providing the tank, fitting and connections and paying for the specilised local plumbing and labour.

 

 

Name of developing country partner: Parish of Ealeba, MSC - Papua New Guinea

 

Objectives: To provide clean water to the community of Daio whose children attend the Kwakela Catholic Primary School for all their basic needs. Prior to the tanks being installed teachers had to carry water from a spring 400 metres away in all sorts of weather, through rain, mud and flooding creeks.

 

Intended beneficiaries: The whole community of Daio, particularly the local teachers and their families, the school children and parents.

 

Description of activities: Installation of 7 fibreglass water tanks outside of the teachers' houses at the local primary school. The tanks were all installed by the parents and teachers.

 

Progress to date: All seven tanks were installed and the project was completed on 16 September 2008.

 

Budget: MSC provided AUD$2000 for the purchase of each of the 7 tanks (a total of AUD$14,000). The total cost of the project was actually AUD$24,850 being the total cost of the tanks inclusive of guttering, downpipes, brackets, cement, freight and labour. The remaining $1,550.00 per tank (or 10,850.00 of the total) was raised by the local community itself. it was on this condition that the project was undertaken.

Objectives: To provide clean water to the community of Andra Island for all their basic needs.

 

Intended beneficiaries: The whole community (general public) of Andra Island who have access to the church and school.

 

Description of activities: Andra Island is a coral atoll, situated approximately ten kilometres from the mainland of Manus Island. As a result of rising sea levels it has become virtually impossible for the local community to use well water for cooking, drinking or laundry. Their only option to obtain water is to paddle in their canoes to their relatives on the mainland. MSC funded the installation of eight tanks, seven of which were located in the community centre and one located at the house of the Catechist. Each of the four teachers' houses were given a tank, one tank was also installed at the school, two at the local church and one at the Catechist's house. They were all installed by the locals who built the foundations for the tanks and who continue to maintain them.

 

Progress to date: The tanks have all been installed and clean water is now available to the whole population of Andras Island irrespective of their involvement with the Catholic Church.

 

Budget: As can be seen from the attached application and the quote provided by the local hardware store in Lorengau, the MSC Mission Office provided $AUD12,180 (K30,809.90) which covered the costs of 2 x 2000 gallon Tuffa tanks, 6 x 1000 gallon Tuffa tanks, 11 x PVC down pipes and 36 x PVC gutters. All other costs associated with installation, maintenance and labour were covered by the local community.  

Name of developing country partner: MSC Sisters, Namibia.

 

Objectives: To provide clean water to the clinic at Mayara, from which the whole village, the school and the hospital can access clean water. Previously the nurse of the clinic and the locals would have to go every day to the river, 5kms away, to get clean water. The locals were endangering their lives as there are frequent attacks by crocodiles in the region.

 

Intended beneficiaries: The entire community of Mayara with a population of 2773. The clinic itself serves a large population from neighbouring areas of 6000, of which 1431 are under the age of 5. Mayara is a very remote community. The clinic there provides health services and without water could not function. The closest hospital apart from the clinic is Andara District Hospital and it is situated 27km away.

 

Description of activities: The bore hole that originally provided water to the clinic no longer functions as the main pipe was cut by UNITA bandits from the neighbouring Angola during the 1998 war. The smaller pipes were all rotten and needed replacement. MSC provided all the materials and the local community provided all the labour, excavating the trenches themselves and installing all parts of the new water system that did not require a specialist.

 

Progress to date: The project was commenced in June 2007 and completed in November 2007.

 

Budget: The quote from E B Joinely Works in Rundu was N$184,662.17 which included 1 x diesel pump, 3000 x class 8 PVC pipes (75mm) laid in trenches, 300 x PVC fittings, 1 x tank tower including 10,000 litter water tank and 1 x steel structure with welded mesh and 1 B R roof covering. The community requested that MSC cover the bulk of the costs associated with purchasing the materials. The costs were very high becasue the village is in such a remote part of Namibia and equipment needed to be transported to the site and returned to the Capital, Windhoek. MSC therefore provided AUD$30,436.00 (N$175,000.00)

Objectives: To install a 5000L tank that will provide clean water to the village and to the medical college that treats local people.

 

Intended beneficiaries: The whole village community and particularly those who need the services of the medical college.

 

Description of activities: MSC financed a water tank to provide clean water to the village and medical college in Nacilau Vilage, Fiji. The locals built the tank stands and did all the installation and maintenance themselves.

 

Progress to date: The tanks have been installed and are now suppying clean water to the community.

 

Budget: AUD$960.00 used to pruchase one 5000L tank. 

Obejectives: To install a water system that will provide infrastructure for a new farm being established the aim of which is to assist and educate local unemployed youth.

 

Intended beneficiaries: Youths who have left school, who are unemployed, homeless and who may have served jail terms, with little prospect of finding suitable work.

 

Description of activities: The Emmaus Farm project is being established by the Diocese of Daru/Kiunga to teach unemployed youths agricultural skills and life skills. The farm teaches students how to grow crops such as rice,vegetables, fruits, peanuts and how to farm poultry and bees. It also provides training in carpentry and mechanical skills. MSC provided 6 water tanks and supporting materials to cover the staff house and other buildings. The tanks were installed by a local plumber who was assisted by local youth. That same local plumber will be employed to maintain the tanks. MSC provided 40% of the costs associated with the purchase of the tamks, insisting that other installation costs and materials were met and provided by the local community itself.

 

Progress to date: The training farm is set to open in 2009 with an initial intake of 50 students. The MSC Mission Office has indicated that they would be willing to provide ongoing support to the farm.

 

Budget: The estimated cost of the project was approximately AUD$23,600.00. MSC provided partial funding of $5000.00 which is a contribution to the 5 tanks and materials.

The clean water projects are about ensuring that communities in need have access to clean water for drinking, cooking, washing and sanitation. A village, school, or community which has no supply of clean drinking water, and may be dependant on rainfall and/or storing water in buckets/drums request that MSC assists with the purchase of a water tank and/or tanks, depending on the number of people in the community, the local environment, or others in surrounding areas who rely on the water in that particular community, village and/or school. MSC is also involved in projects where it is necessary to dig underground wells, supply water pumps or install solar panels.

 

In at least 90% of the projects undertaken by MSC, we are asked to supply tanks, which are normally above ground. MSC will purchase the tank, through the local Mission Office representative or the Project Applicant and arrange for the community to have it transported to the particular location. The community is responsible for building the tank stand, supplying the raw materials (concrete, sand, gutters ets), as well as supplying the labour to do the work.

 MSC provides some expert assistance and training where necessary. In the majority of communities the local people have over time become very skilled in construction and installation. They are extremely self-sufficient through necessity. In the case of a water tank connected to the roof of a building the ongoing maintenance is simple, as it comprises only the tank, gutters and down pipes and the local communities are well positioned/skilled to maintain the tank/tanks in excellent working condition.

 

in the situation where a bore well has to be dug, then the local community are required to dig the well, again many have developed those skills through years of being self sufficient, or they may have access to mechanical equipment to assist them in the process of digging. The key point is that MSC does not accept the responsibility of organising that work, it is the local community who are responsible, under the supervision and direction of the Project Applicant/Manager.

 

MSC has also installed submersible pumps, where the local community has been required to hire drilling equipment, to achieve the depth of the bore, so that water can be reached and tapped. These projects are few in number. There is often no alternative but for the applicant to access mechanical equipment in order to complete an installation. These type of projects require a professional contractor to be involved.