 North West Kisumu has a population of approximately 10,000 people. Due to global warming, deforestation, and an unpredictable rainfall pattern, surface water sources such as streams, pans, and rivers are lacking in the Marera community and surrounding areas within the Kisumu District in Kenya. Women and girls travel long distances to draw water from stagnant, contaminated water ponds, leading to a high prevalence of waterborne diseases which adversely impacts both health and learning.
The Marera Community Self-Help Project, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Kisumu aims at providing safe, reliable drinking water to nearly 2,500 households in the community, including many child-headed households. In addition to intact families, this project will serve disabled children, adolescent girls, HIV positive babies, other vulnerable children, widows, and aged grandparents who are the orphans' caregivers.
The major goals include providing safe and adequate drinking water, minimizing water collection efforts, enabling mothers to spend quality time nurturing children, and enabling the girls to attend school. In addition, a clean source of drinking water will eradicate or at least minimize the incidences of waterborne diseases. |
