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A Project for You..
From time to time we are approached by organisations,
and sometimes individuals, who have a wish to help those less fortunate
than themselves. We are told how much money is likely to be raised
and then we find, administer and run the project – but in essence
the project is yours. Where possible we try and arrange visits for
participants to actually have hands-on experience, but if this does
not happen then we provide constant feedback so that everyone knows
what is happening. We do our best to keep you involved at every
level.
As an example, David Thompson embarked upon the
Great North Run and raised the £7,000 that was needed to undertake
a Nepalese water project, and in 2006 we have a chap who is running
the Edinburgh marathon who has set himself a target of £40,000,
and this will build twenty nine houses for some of the poorest people
in India.
Below are two of the projects we are currently seeking sponsers for, these are both water projects based in India that would change the lives of hundreds of children. Please contact us if you would like to make one of these projects your own or if there is something else you would like us to help you arrange.
We are here to help facilitate your wish
to help.
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Mary Knott Girls’ Hostel Toilet and Bathing Area Project Proposal
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The Mary Knott Hostel is administered by the Methodist Church in India and cares for orphan, semiorphan and abandoned girls.
The bathing cubicles are set against the compound wall and are open on the top and front. Orphanage administrators are greatly concerned for the girls’ safety and modesty since village men sometimes peer over the wall to watch the girls.
Nearby is the toilet facility which, while affording privacy, is entirely inadequate. The roof of this toilet building is rusted and provides little protection. |
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The concrete walls and floors are crumbling. Water is provided to the toilet block and bathing and clothes washing areas via an electric pump. There is no water storage tank at the site, so water must be collected in buckets and carried to where it is needed. The problem is compounded by frequent power outages at which times the electric pump is inoperable. There is no sanitary waste water system at the site.
Donate For Life is proposing the removal of the old bathing, clothes washing and toilet facilities and construction of a new enclosed building that will house all three functions in a safe and completely private unit.
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Methodist Boarding Home for Boys and Girls
Water System and Toilet Facility Project
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The Methodist Boarding Home for Boys and Girls cares for 120 orphan and semi-orphan (one surviving parent) children. Of this number 90 are boys and 30 are girls and the administration plans to take in an additional 30 girls in June 2006.
Some of the children in the boarding home are AIDS orphans.
In the same compound that houses the boys’ and girls’ hostels is a tuition-free school for 600 students.
This is the only school serving ten villages and it draws students from an additional ten villages where the schools are inadequately equipped and the teachers poorly trained. Some students walk five to eight kilometres each way to attend school here. |
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The drinking water and sanitation at this children’s home and school is dreadful. Water is pumped from an open bore hole 500m away from which livestock drink and in which local boys swim. The open tank across the highway is also used by some 2,000 villagers to collect water every day. This means many hands are immersed in the water every day which contributes significantly to illnesses in the children who suffer from numerous water and mosquito-borne diseases.
DFL has committed to drilling an 800 foot deep borewell inside the compound, purchase an electric
pump and the piping needed to carry the water 150-200 metres to the school and to both the boys’
and girls’ hostels. A large underground, enclosed storage tank will be built to ensure the water
remains uncontaminated and a secondary, smaller tank will be constructed in the school grounds for
use by the students during the day.
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Little Flower Home for Children Drinking Water Project
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The Little Flower Home for Children is home to 210 orphan, semi-orphan and abandoned girls.
It is located near the extreme southern tip of India in the city of Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu.
The orphanage is situated in a large compound that includes a day school for 3,400 children. The
Little Flower School was constructed 50 years ago and the children’s home followed five years later.
The children’s home and school have significant water needs that the existing system is unable to adequately meet.
There are 3,400 children who attend the school along with 138 teachers and staff. Water is needed for sanitation, drinking and cooking during the day and the 210 orphan girls and their staff need water for bathing, toilets, clothes and dish washing and cooking 24 hours a day. |
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Sister Rajesh Mary, the Superior for the school and children’s home, has requested funds to build a larger water storage tank and to purchase a one-horsepower motor to quickly pump municipal water into the tank.
In addition, the septic tank system is inadequate for the number of children using the toilets and they are requesting funds to construct a new system at the same time that they build the water storage tank.
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Methodist Rural Children’s Home Girls’ Hostel Toilet Block Project
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The Methodist Rural Children’s Home is located approximately 20 kilometres west of Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, India. The children’s home consists of both a boys’ and girls’ hostel, separated from each other by several hundred yards.
The toilet facility for the 76 hostel girls is quite dilapidated. The crumbling concrete floors prove
impossible to clean and the open water tank that serves the toilet is in very poor condition.
The toilet block is a small, windowless structure that is depressingly dark with mouldy walls and broken toilets.
The design of the bathing block compromises the modesty of the girls as men sometimes peer over the
compound wall to watch the girls as they bathe.
Donate For Life seeks a sponsor to replace the girls’ hostel toilet block with a new enclosed building having 10 squat-style toilets and a private area for bathing. A 7,000 litre water tank will serve this facility. A clothes-washing platform with a 5,000 litre water tank will be built in another location.
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