Funded Water Projects 2004

In 2004, Blue Planet Run began building a world-wide network of partners that implement drinking water projects. We had great success working with global NGOs such as Water Aid and Water for People and local ones such as El Porvenir and WOTR.

Our focus is to fund projects that are sustainable, that is, the community is able to maintain and run them for many years. This involves getting the community to feel ownership, to be organized, to donate time and materials, and learn the principles of safe drinking water and the system in place. This means the projects involve education, hygiene, sanitation, and sometimes even apparently unrelated activities such as reforestation (to protect and enrich the water system) and family planning education.

BPR works with agencies with experience, credibility, and results and who are approached by communities to help them address their water issues.

Funding Round
 2004 To Date

Countries
Nicaragua
Mali
India
Malawi
Bolivia
Sierra Leone
Afghanistan
Kazakhstan

Number of projects funded:
29 142
Number of people impacted:
19,000 137,000
Number of countries:
8 14
Number of funded partners:
7 18
Funds committed:
$189,169 $1,109,000

 

COUNTRY PWX PARTNER AMOUNT FUNDED PEOPLE IMPACTED
Nicaragua El Porvenir $17,500  900
Two rural communities have no access to safe water, existing well is in disrepair and no sanitary facilities resulting in extreme hardship to get water. Project involves building of wells and latrines by the community with funds going to purchase or rent materials and equipment. Project includes reforestation and creation of a nursery, as well as education for hygiene and family planning.. [details]
Mali WaterAid $16,000   550

Around Bamako, the capital, rapid expansion and urbanization have led to large peri-urban areas without household welfare facilities. 40% of poor people don’t have access to drinkable water, knowledge of safe hygiene behaviour is poor, and access to adequate sanitation is low. The project involves the construction of supply standpipes, household latrines, household compost pits and one school sanitation block. [details]
Malawi   $12,000   400 children + nearby families
A school has no latrines or safe drinking water, making it hard for children (esp. adolescent girls). Constructing an easy-to-maintain bore well and 10 latrines allows children to enjoy schooling with better health thanks to good water and sanitation. In addition an earlier well project required a sanitation component which can now be constructed. [details]
Sierra Leone Safer Future $16,000  700
In one of the poorest nations in the world a 10 year old rural education and development NGO received an Austrian scholarship to send two people to India for six months to study RWH and solar electrification at Barefoot College. The first two school top RWH systems in the country will be created in a phased funding project. The project will include building toilets and will impact education and the local economy in a neglected rural area suffering from population exodus.   [details]
India   $25,326  8,030
In the arid central Indian plateau, drought makes living and farming hard, causing an exodus of able people to city slums for work. Four villages in three different districts have organized themselves to restore their watershed and also socially to have women’s groups with decision powers. The watershed programs use contributed and paid labor to make terraces and small bunds to channel all rainwater into the ground. This provides drinking water year round, plus 6-9 months of farming. Reforestation, community building, new farming techniques, and changing animal husbandry patterns, make for a sustainable solution. The project involves funding the drinking water component of the watershed program.
India   $15,227  400 children + nearby families
In the northeast Himalayan state of Sikkim, heavy seasonal rain for two months that is not trapped causes drought in the community and dependence on tankers for the rest of the year.
The project will create rooftop RWH solution on five schools along with sanitation facilities. Children, esp. girls can go to school and get water, so education is improved and the entire community benefits.
Bolivia Water for People $12,000  625 + nearby school children

A small village received a spring-fed gravity water system with outlets to every one of 125 households, the school, and the community centre. [details]
Kazakhstan   $500

In the former Soviet republic, the infrastructure is crumbling and there is no knowledge of community based water management systems. A person was funded to fly to a workshop in India on watershed development and RWH.
Afghanistan   $15,000

A Norwegian relief agency has people on the ground in Kabul selecting local partners to send to Barefoot College India for training on RWH under the umbrella of the Global Rain Water Harvesting Collective. Upon their return we will co-fund two RWH projects (total cost $30,000) with the Norwegian agency.
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