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	D-667    Nigeria - Aba Water Borehole for School $12,515 This project was submitted at the West Africa Project Fair The city public water board is inefficient. For the past few years, it has not been able to provide water to the residents of the city. The public water pipes have not been brought to any of these schools. Most people have, therefore, had to sink their own borehole to provide potable water. What we seek to do is to do water boreholes for the schools. The schools are all within the city limits of Aba and therefore have electricity. We therefore propose to sink boreholes with electric pumps as against boreholes with manually operated hand pump. The one with electric pump is more efficient and would require an overhead tank. With an overhead tank, water will always be available for the students. Power supply by the public power company is wrought with incessant outages, we will provide a power generating set to run the pump when there is no power. The water table is pretty well established throughout the city and of public knowledge. It’s been established that you can get water at a depth of about 40meters(130feet), however, it is better to go deeper to 55meters(180feet) to get good clean water without any threat of running out or being polluted. The borehole will be sited within the school premises. We will construct a small building 3.5m(11.5ft)x3.5m(11.5ft)x2.6m(8.5ft) high. The building will be made of reinforced concrete columns and slab with sandcrete blocks infill. The slab will carry a 2000liter(500gal) pvc water tank. The building will serve the dual purpose of being a stand for the water tank as well as housing the plumbing abd electrical installations. The electrical installations for switching the pump as well as other electrical installations will be located inside the building. The taps will be placed on one of the walls of the buildings and can be controlled from inside the building. This building will have the Rotary Wheel boldly inscribed on it with the names of the sponsoring clubs also inscribed on the walls of the building. Primary Host Partner in the Project Country Club: Eziukwu, Aba District: 9140 Primary Contact: Ude Ikeotuonye Email: udey1@yahoo.com Check all projects from: [District 9140] [Eziukwu, Aba Rotary Club] [Ude Ikeotuonye] Primary International Partner Outside the Project Country Club: Avon Park Florida Breakfast District: 6890 Primary Contact: Renee Bennett Email: renee@managementexperts.com Check all projects from: [District 6890] [Avon Park Florida Breakfast Rotary Club] [Renee Bennett] Proposed Financing Primary Host Sponsor Rotary Club/District District 9140 DDF $2,500 Primary International Sponsor Rotary Club/District Rotary Club of Avon Park Florida Breakfast $500 Additional Rotary Clubs/Districts Rotary Club of Christiana $1,510 Rotary Club of Newark (evening) $1,500 Rotary Club of Newark Morning Club $1,500 Amount requested from the Rotary Foundation $5,005 Total $12,515 Status and Progress Information Completed This project is completed. Project listed for the 2007-08 Rotary Year. The Matching Grant application number from TRF is #64647. The TRF Staff in charge of this grant is Adam McCormack (Adam.McCormack@rotary.org). <1-Nov-06> System Entry Creation of project page. <22-Feb-07> System Entry Pledge of $500 by Renee Bennett of the Rotary Club of Avon Park Florida Breakfast, District 6890. <27-Mar-07> System Entry Pledge of $1,510 by David Schultz of the Rotary Club of Christiana, District 7630. <2-Apr-07> System Entry Pledge of $1,500 by Robert Reissman of the Rotary Club of Newark (evening), District 7630. <2-Apr-07> System Entry Pledge of $1,500 by Fiona Tresolini of the Rotary Club of Newark Morning Club, District 7630. <1-Aug-07> by Ude Ikeotuonye Paperwork is complete, application needs DGSC to review and sign before it is sent to TRF <18-Nov-07> System Entry Grant paperwork sent to The Rotary Foundation. <18-Nov-07> by Ude Ikeotuonye Awaiting TRF approval <1-Feb-08> System Entry Grant approved by The Rotary Foundation. <18-Aug-08> by Ude Ikeotuonye The project has just been funded by The Rotary Foundation and work at the sites will soon commence. <16-Mar-09> by Ude Ikeotuonye Project is completed. Club will schedule a hand over ceremony to the beneficiaries. A Final Report will be sent to TRF soon. <16-Nov-09> System Entry Grant status changed to "Completed". Web site design by Philippe Lamoise, D2G Pages, pictures and video on this site © Philippe Lamoise 2001, 2005 This website is a private initiative by Rotarian Philippe Lamoise, Torrey Pines Rotary Club, District 5340, to help the clubs and districts worldwide to do matching grants with The Rotary Foundation.