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WATER FOR LIFE PROJECT Give Me A Drink John 4:7 Liberia Annual Conference, The United Methodist Church. Liberia Partnership Summit, Alton, Illinois Great Rivers Conference, USA November 21-22, 2013 By Jefferson B. Knight, Program

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WATER FOR LIFE PROJECT “Give Me A Drink” John 4:7

Liberia Annual Conference, The United Methodist Church. Liberia Partnership Summit, Alton, Illinois Great Rivers Conference, USA — November 21-22, 2013

By Jefferson B. Knight, Program Director

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Introduction/Background

The program was established in 2008, following the death of an 18-year-old epileptic man, who was drowned in the only source

  • f drinking water for a local

village comprised of over 300

  • inhabitants. Unaware of the

incident, the villagers kept drinking from the river, but later discovered the decomposed body

  • f the man four days later. Prior

to the discovery, an outbreak of diarrhea and running stomach had affected the village, leaving many children seriously ill and

  • ne dead.
  • This also resulted into the

hospitalization of several of the

  • people. The intervention of the

United Methodist Church brought a sigh of relief to the village when a well was constructed in collaboration with a local

  • rganization within the area that

would later inspire a nationwide project.

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MISSION

RESCUING GOD’S PEOPLE FROM DRINKING CONTAMINATED WATER AND RESTORING THEIR HUMAN DIGNITY BY CONSTRUCTING WELL AND TOILET FACILITIES ACROSS LIBERIA.

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AIMS/OBJECTIVES

  • Seek resources (funding) for the construction of wells and

toilet facilities within communities throughout Liberia annually.

  • Set up community structures and leadership that will

supervise and coordinate the wells and toilets.

  • Strengthen existing community structures and leadership

for the supervision and proper management of the facilities.

  • Mobilize, train, and educate communities on water and

sanitation and other developmental initiatives.

  • Promote the rights to access clean and safe drinking water

and good sanitation facilities, health, and development at the grass-roots level in post-war Liberia.

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Annual Financial Goal

  • GBGM/Advance-------------------$185,000
  • Local/LAC/UMC---------------------$20,000
  • Total funds per annual------------$205,000
  • Total funds raised in 2009-2013-----$350,000
  • Average cost for hand dug well--$3,000.
  • Drilled machine--$5,500.
  • Rehabilitation—$1,000.

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Liberia Physical Setting

  • Liberia is situated on the

southwestern corner of the West Coast of Africa. It has a surface area of about 111,400 sq. km. out of which 14% is covered by

  • water. Liberia borders Sierra

Leone to the west, Guinea to the north, Côte d’Ivoire to the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.

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Liberia Civil War

Rebel Fighters The Civil War

  • In 1989, Liberia's 127 years
  • f peaceful democracy was

shattered when a senseless civil unrest erupted. Boys were recruited as child soldiers and girls were forced to serve as sex

  • slaves. Over 250,000 people

were killed.

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IMPACT OF THE WAR

  • The devastating impact of the

war was very heavy thus destroying the basic fabrics of the society, including water, electricity, etc.

  • People started a desperate search

for water, which continues today. Few wells still exist but most are contaminated, broken, or

  • verused. Many villagers are

forced to draw water from stagnant, bacteria-infested ponds and swamps and defecate in bushes, rivers, and creeks, the

  • pen, etc.

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Pre and Post War Water Situation

  • The Monrovia Water Supply

System was damaged on three

  • ccasions between 1990 and
  • 1992. It was put out of
  • peration again in 1996 and in

2003. Recent rehabilitations have restored the system to 25% its pre war capacity of 16 million gallons per day, pumping and distributing about 4 million gallons of water per day to some parts of Monrovia and its environs.

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Water sources

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  • Liberia is endowed with abundant

water resources, but the proper management and planning of these remain crucial to meeting the actual needs of the people. This problem is further compounded by various administrative, technical and political problems, particularly the poor state of the Liberian economy after 14 years of civil strife.

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Ground Water

  • Generally, groundwater

is available and can be exploited in most parts

  • f the country in

quantities needed for rural water supply, which relies on dug wells and to some extent on drilled

  • boreholes. It is 95% safe

for drinking.

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  • Information from the

Water for Life Project indicates that the depth to the water table in shallow wells can be less than one meter.

  • Drilled boreholes can

be as deep as 100 meters.

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Accessibility of Safe Water and Sanitation

  • 55% of Liberians do not

have access to safe drinking water while 83% lacks sanitation facilities.

  • 12,000 people die every

year due to poor water and sanitation in Liberia.

  • 2,600 children under the

age 5 die every year from diarrhea due to poor water and sanitation- (WHO/UNICEF)

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Bags filled with sand are being used as filters, Monrovia.

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A Toilet and Bathroom

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Impact of the Water for Life Project

229 Hand pumps constructed in 2009-2013. Beneficiaries---175,000

  • ut of 12 of our political

sub-division. 55% are children and young people. 40% of the hand pumps are constructed on school campuses and clinics. 85% of the wells are constructed in rural communities. Hand dug well-95%. Drilled---------5%.

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Reduction of sicknesses related to water by 85% in those areas being serviced by the Water for Life Project. “Before, we were getting water from a river 600 meters from the village and that water was not even clean and safe. There were a lot of running stomach and diarrhea cases here. But, it has reduced since the hand pump was built right in the town”.

  • --Sunaway, 26, Rivercess, Liberia

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Convertion of a Village

  • An entire village of 120

people got converted to Christianity in Tippita, Nimba County as a result of the construction of just one hand pump in Neibwenwein.

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Impact

“The construction of the hand pump right within our town is helping us. We no longer have to go long distances to fetch water from the creek. I am now able to go to school everyday, on time and study my lessons”. Noah-12, Bong County,

Liberia.

“I noticed since the hand pump was constructed here, diarrhea and typhoid have reduced and my children are well”.-Juah, 31, West Point, Liberia.

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Rivercess County

Before After

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Tippita District, Liberia

Before After

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Monrovia

Before After

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Grand Bassa County, Liberia

Before After

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Barnersville, Monrovia

Before After

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West Point

Before After

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Johnsonville, Liberia

Before After

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Challenges

The challenges include but not limited to:

  • Inaccessible areas;
  • Deplorable road conditions;
  • Delay in mobilizing local materials by the communities;
  • The raining season;
  • Lack specific project vehicle (Pickup truck);
  • Sometimes, the technicians have to change project site

more than once due to heavy rocks underground;

  • Inability to service the hundred of requests on a daily

basis due to limited funds.

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Deplorable road condition

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Inaccessible areas

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Training and Management

  • Training on

maintenance and management of the wells play a very significant role in the

  • ver all sustainability of

the facilities.

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Installation of a new hand pump in rural Montserrado County

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SMART Center Water Program

  • Smart centre focuses on

training local

  • rganizations involved

in the water sector that will produce and service a range of new low cost water and sanitation solutions.

  • The goal is to establish a

sustainable and compatible supply sector of options which can reduce costs of communal systems and that are affordable for (groups of) households.

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Smart Center

  • Manufacture materials

locally for mainly shadow wells from the experience

  • f Malawi and Uganda.
  • This is a cost effective

initiative that will increase productivity of the wells in mostly low land areas.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

  • WATER FOR LIFE
  • ADVANCE# 3020811
  • LIBERIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH,
  • P. O. BOX 1010-10, 13TH STREET, SINKOR, 1,000 MONROVIA 10,

LIBERIA

  • CONTACT PERSON: JEFFERSON B. KNIGHT
  • TELEPHONE # 231-886-572-914
  • EMAIL:

jboyeknight@hotmail.com/humanrightsmonitor@hotmail.com

  • Website: liberiaannualconference.org

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