Rehabilitation of Kichu Community Water Project

Project Location:  Cameroon North West Region, Bamenda Kichu Belo sub division

Project duration:   6 Months                                       Project cost: €9,698

 

 Brief description of the situation: Need for the project: Kichu a community with a population of 2,200 people (400 men, 800 women, 1,000 children). The main occupation is small farm family subsistence farming. The community has one primary school and a market that serves the population of the Belo valley. Kichu village is host to one of the main weekly markets –Belo market in the region with attendance of 1,300 (900 women and 400 men-indirect beneficiaries).   Pipe borne water taps are broken 0/and people share very poor far off water spring sources with Livestock; goats, sheep, pigs and fowls, share the same water source with humans. People are in desperate need of clean drinking water, water is a resource treasured by the community. 

Project objectives: To rehabilitate a water project that will supply clean drinking water for 2,200 people of Kichu inhabitant, plus 1,300 people that visits the weekly market located in Kichu. 

Project Purpose: Clean Water and Sanitation

Sustainable Development Goal SDG 6

Project results: OUTPUT: The resources are used efficiently to construct clean drinking water supply tank –reservoir to Kichu community, with four public stand pipes

 

OUTCOME: clean drinking water access through four public stand pipes, at strategic points in the community

 

IMPACT: 80% of people in the community have access to clean drinking water with improved livelihoods and improve incomes as medical expenses are reduced.

   

Request from donors                                                               €9,698

Beneficiaries in-kind contributions                                        €1,204

EDGF office rents contributions                                               €   915

Total cost                                                                                   €11,817