Summary
Children from Govt schools in India often do not have access to clean drinking water. There have many cases of children falling sick after drinking water from hand pumps or other contaminated water sources. The project is created with the objective of providing safe drinking water to these kids. We will identify & reach out to 25 schools in rural parts of Karnataka which require this support and provide a water purifier and 80 litre storage tank, which would serve the children of these schools.
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Challenge
Children studying in Govt Schools in India (specially in rural parts) often do not access to clean drinking water. This is resulting in many School children often falling sick. Children are forced to drink water from unsafe sources such as hand pumps or directly from bore well pipes. The levels of contaminants are often high enough to cause adverse health effects such as nausea, skin rash, vomiting and dizziness.
Solution
The project has the objective of providing the option of safe drinking water to the children. We plan to identify 25 schools from rural parts of Karnataka, India, where this intervention is required and provide each school with a water purifier and storage tank with enough capacity to meet the requirement of the children in the school.
Long-Term Impact
We plan to reach out to 25 schools. Taking an average strength of 300 children per school, we will providing clean drinking water to more than 7000 children- every year. As the water purifiers and storage tanks are long term installations, this project will potentially benefit thousands more children over the years.
Final Report on Water purifier project
By Aditya Salian - Project Coordinator
This project has helped provide safe drinking water for over 2000 children from 20 government schools located in rural parts of the state of Karnataka. We have reached out to schools in the Districts of Tumkur and Chikballapur.
In the initial stage the water purifier vendor had been asked to conduct tests on the contamination level in the water for each of the schools. The right solutions were then designed after taking into consideration factors such as avalilability of electricity and flowing water at the school premise. To enable more number of children to access the drinking water we have provided each purifier with a storage tank with enough capacity to cater to the strength of that particular school. While deciding the location for the purifier other factors such as safety against theft and natural elements were also considered. School authorities were always consulted at all stages of the project and their happiness and gratitide at the implimentation of this project gave us even more energy to execute the project. Short training sessions have been conducted for all the teachers at the schools in order to share information about the functionality and maintenance of the water purifiers. We have also signed up a three year maintenance contract with the vendor of the water purifier to ensure smooth running of the purifiers.
The first set of purifiers were installed on 14th November (Childrens Day) in three schools. Volunteers visited the schools for the inaugration and spent time with the children. The event also got some coverage from the local newspaper.
The final installations were completed on 28th January in 7 schools in the Chikballapur district. The list of schools (with contact info of the school headmaster) where the water purifiers have already been installed has been attached for your reference.
Report on Water purifier project for Govt schools
By Aditya Salian - Project Coordinator
The project has helped provide safe drinking water for over 1500 children from 13 government schools located in rural parts of the state of Karnataka.
The water purifier installations have so far been completed in the Tumkur Disctrict. Another 7 water purifiers are planned to be installed through this project in needy parts of Gulbarga Taluk.
In the initial stage the water purifier vendor had been asked to conduct tests on the contamination level in the water for each of the schools (picture has been attached of a test on flouride content in the water before the installation of the purifiers). The right solutions were then designed after taking into consideration factors such as avalilability of electricity and flowing water at the school premise. To enable more number of children to access the drinking water we have provided each purifier with a storage tank with enough capacity to cater to the strength of that particular school. While deciding the location for the purifier Other factors such as safety against theft and natural elements were also considered while deciding the location for the purifiers. School authorities were always consulted at all stages of the project and their happiness and gratitide at the implimentation of this project gave us even more energy to execute the project. There is a plan to conduct a short training session for all the teachers at a central location to share information about the functionality and maintenance of the water purifiers. We have also signed up a three year maintenance contract with the vendor of the water purifier to ensure smooth running of the purifiers.
The first set of purifiers were installed on 14th November (Childrens Day) in three schools. Volunteers visited the schools for the inaugration and spent time with the children. The event also got some coverage from the local newspaper. The list of schools (with contact info of the school headmaster) where the water purifiers have already been installed has been attached for your reference.
