Sustainable Solutions for Communities’ Needs
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Social
Burkina Faso'sProject funded by Hilton Foundation with Winrock International is Giving Rural Communities Access toWater and Providing Employment
In Burkina Faso, thousands of children under 5 die from preventable causes such as diarrhoea, a leading killer of children in this West African nation. Access to clean water is crucial in preventing diarrhoea - and in the fight against poverty and disease.
NICEF supports the Government of Burkina Faso to ensure that clean water and access to adequate sanitation are available to everyone. It does so by finding simple and sustainable solutions to respond to rural Burkinabe communities' water needs.
A recent pilot project funded by Hilton Foundation and carried out in partnership with Winrock International is not only bringing safe water to remote rural communities, but also providing employment.
How? By using manual drilling with locally produced and easily available tools, and by training community members in new skills so that they can build more water points for other communities in need.
Today there are 20 manually drilled water points, providing access to clean water for about 4,000 people in villages scattered across desolate fields in remote areas of Dedougou, in the western region of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest regions of the country.
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